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There is a high chance that deadly coronavirus will make it to New Zealand, but health officials are confident they can prevent an outbreak.
Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay briefed media in Wellington about the risk of the virus arriving.
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Fiji authorities are holding six Chinese travellers in quarantine as a precaution after they failed to gain entry to Samoa.
Samoa's government has confirmed the six were refused entry for not meeting strict quarantine requirements implemented on Friday.
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Read more: 6 quarantined in Fiji - Pacific nations on alert for coronavirus
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The Ministry of Health is stepping up measures to control the entry of the deadly coronavirus into New Zealand by dispatching public health staff to meet all incoming flights from China.
A flight from mainland China is due to touch down in Auckland tomorrow at 6.30am.
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Public health staff will begin meeting flights from China from Monday as the coronavirus threat grows.
The move comes after criticism from National Party health spokesman Michael Woodhouse, who said the Government wasn't doing enough to detect it at Auckland International Airport.
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Read more: China arrivals to be checked by health staff amid coronavirus outbreak
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You don’t want your retirement savings invested in nuclear bombs, sure. But what about conventional defence equipment that’s also used for essential civilian purposes?
This month’s assassination of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and the Australian navy’s evacuation of people escaping bushfires are two very different events, but they highlight the dilemma faced by KiwiSavers wanting to invest ethically. When does putting your retirement savings into a weapons manufacturer cross the line between acceptable and unacceptable?
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Read more: Tanks, torpedoes and tasers: Why weapons are a conundrum for KiwiSavers
- Article: https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/24-01-2020/tanks-tridents-and-torpedoes-why-weapons-are-a-conundrum-for-kiwisavers/
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The NZDF, Navy Army and Air Force regularly help in disasters from Search and rescue, cyclon and earthquake recovery, Kaikoura earthquake was a good example where the warships came to help, supplying food, clean water, and boots on the ground. But they can also defend the nation if needed.
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Doctors have warned horny young men to refrain from using banana peels to masturbate — the latest bizarre sex trend circulating on social media.
“It’s the closet thing to a blowjob,” wrote one randy Redditor, who claims “he’s been doing it for years.”
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Read more: Doctors beg men not to masturbate with banana peels
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An expert advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) has described the coronavirus outbreak as potentially "thermonuclear pandemic level bad".
Dozens have been killed by the virus 2019-nCoV since it was first detected in early December, and as of Sunday morning (NZ time) there were 1441 confirmed cases.
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Read more: Harvard expert calls coronavirus outbreak 'thermonuclear pandemic level bad'
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The Defence Force is battling to find a buyer for 30 unwanted armoured vehicles which cost about $186 million.
It is another chapter in the long running saga of one of the army's most expensive, and most controversial, purchases.
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