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PM Jacinda Ardern admitted in Tuesday afternoon's press conference authorities weren't testing widely enough to tell where the community outbreaks are, so the case definition has been expanded. Photo / Mark Mitchell

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Wedding party, dementia group in seven new NZ clusters; Deadliest day in UK, Spain

1 Apr, 2020 7:10am

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An Auckland man says he was turned away from a Covid-19 test twice before he tested positive for the virus. Photo / Geoff Muliaga Brown

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'It shouldn't be this hard': Marist dad turned away twice before positive Covid-19 test

1 Apr, 2020 5:00am

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Finance Minister Grant Robertson leads colleagues into a briefing on the Government's economic response to Covid-19. In the fortnight since, the response has escalated. Photo / Mark Mitchell

BUSINESS

Fiscal prudence to $1b a week: Robertson's mammoth task

1 Apr, 2020 5:00am

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WORLD

Deadliest day: Spain, UK record biggest jump in coronavirus deaths

1 Apr, 2020 6:50am
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Jarrod Gilbert: High-quality information has never been more important

1 Apr, 2020 5:00am
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When is the lockdown bake-off? What happened to all of NZ's flour?

31 Mar, 2020 7:18pm
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BUSINESS

NZ banks should be able to absorb credit losses - S&P

1 Apr, 2020 5:00am
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Why Asia's new coronavirus controls should worry the world

1 Apr, 2020 8:08am
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NZ software to help decide which coronavirus patients get ICU beds

31 Mar, 2020 7:00pm
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LIFESTYLE

Kate Hawkesby: Harry and Meghan's tone deaf coronavirus move

1 Apr, 2020 7:30am
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ENTERTAINMENT

Steve Braunias: An awkward reunion and it is farewell to The Bachelorette

1 Apr, 2020 5:00am
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Mose Masoe has been ejected from hospital to make room for Covid-19 patients. Photo / Instagram

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'Stop being selfish': Kiwi league star ejected from hospital for Covid-19 patients

1 Apr, 2020 8:20am
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Frustrated former NRL prop forced to leave hosptial to make room for coronavirus patients.

Don and Marian Stuart's tour of India was cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Photo / Supplied

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Stranded Kiwi couple in India living off rationed bananas

1 Apr, 2020 7:00am

A Waihī Beach couple have been stranded in a hotel room in India for nearly a fortnight.

BUSINESS

Revealed: The NZ stores open online during lockdown

31 Mar, 2020 7:08pm

BUSINESS

$100m-plus deal cleared: Costco takes next step to open first NZ store

1 Apr, 2020 8:26am

A herd of goats walk the quiet streets in Llandudno, north Wales. Photos / Pete Byrne, PA via AP

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Un-baaaaa-lievable: Goats invade locked down town

1 Apr, 2020 7:07am
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It's thought that a lack of people has drawn the goats down from the hills nearby.

The Epidemic Response Committee hearing this morning via video-conference.

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Lockdown 'not enough', top professor warns MPs

31 Mar, 2020 12:59pm
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Sir David Skegg said if this chance is lost, 'the shutdown will continue for many months'.

12 Koalas are going back to the bush, plus a new-born joey. Photo / Supplied, Science for Wildlife, via Facebook

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NSW Koalas' return to wild expedited by coronavirus

31 Mar, 2020 5:13pm
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In the three months of captivity, the rescued population has grown by a joey.

Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex arrive at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Photo / AP

LIFESTYLE

Mystery of Meghan and Harry's final Instagram post

31 Mar, 2020 6:28pm
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COMMENT: Two very important words were conspicuously absent.

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Inside NZ Rugby's fight for survival: Huge wage cuts, $100 million losses

1 Apr, 2020 6:00am
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Herald morning quiz: April 1

1 Apr, 2020 5:00am
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Otago University Professor and epidemiologist Sir David Skegg. Photo / Supplied

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Comment: Just when you thought the Opposition had become irrelevant

31 Mar, 2020 6:23pm
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The Opposition had disappeared into irrelevance. Until now.

Inia Maxwell and his children, Maaka, 13, and Kahu-Tarena, 7, made these signs for Ohinemutu. Photo / Supplied

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'Trespassers will be boiled': Ohinemutu residents take action to keep visitors out

1 Apr, 2020 6:47am
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Why Ohinemutu residents are telling visitors to keep out.

Tiger King gets its claws into the the larger-than-life story of Joe Exotic. Photo / Courtesy of Netflix

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Siena Yates: Tiger King is entertaining but should it be?

1 Apr, 2020 5:00am
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COMMENT: Netflix's trending true crimes series favours the superficial over substance.

New Zealand's Reserve Bank has made another unorthodox policy move. Photo / File

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Reserve Bank's latest emergency move ... and what comes next

30 Mar, 2020 5:54pm
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New Zealand's Reserve Bank has made another unorthodox policy move.

SPORT

Dylan Cleaver: The brilliant voices of Radio Sport will be sorely missed

30 Mar, 2020 3:19pm
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COMMENT: The voices on Radio Sport went quiet today. Sport is much poorer for it.

Coronavirus: What you need to know

We answer the frequently asked questions about alert level 4 in New Zealand. Photo / 123rf

Virus lockdown: Q&A - what you can and can't do

Can you still exercise? What will police be doing? Your questions answered.

Medical laboratory staff are considered essential services and remain working. Photo / 123rf

Revealed: The full list of 'essential' businesses that can stay open

Govt reveals which jobs will be among those considered to be 'essential'

New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush. Photo / Jason Oxenham

Coronavirus: How police, military will enforce lockdown

What you need to know about the nation's looming shutdown.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today New Zealand's Covid-19 alert level was at level 3 and rising to level 4 on Wednesday. Photo / Getty

Coronavirus: What will alert level 4 mean for NZ?

New Zealand will move to Covid-19 alert level 4 in 48 hours.

Education Minister Chris Hipkins explains what will happens to schools during the lockdown. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Coronavirus lockdown: What it means for schools, universities and other education facilities

What the lockdown means for schools and education facilities.

What the lockdown means for parents with shared custody

Can children still go between households during the lockdown?

SPORT

'So idiotic': Boxer could lose millions after vile lockdown video

31 Mar, 2020 6:15pm
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WBO super-middleweight champion suspended and could lose big-money fight.

A rejected contestant revealed he had a secret relationship with Lesina who

ENTERTAINMENT

The Bachelorette NZ reunion: Scorned contestants slam 'cruel' Lesina

31 Mar, 2020 8:50pm
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Rejected contestant reveals he had a secret relationship with Lesina who 'led him on'.

The flight left from Auckland with almost 60 passengers on board. Photo / 123RF

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First domestic flight for Kiwis quarantined in Auckland

1 Apr, 2020 6:24am
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Almost 60 passengers finally make their way to Wellington and Christchurch.

Go NZ!

Sunday Cantina owner Fiona Greig is doing online cooking classes everyday during the lockdown.

Free online raw cooking classes everyday during lockdown

Join Fi, owner of Sunday Cantina, in her online cooking classes throughout lockdown.

Bruce McBride (from left) and Andrew Ranger of Papamoa Plumbing are wiping their callout fee for the lockdown period. Photo / Supplied

Kindness diaries: Plumbers ease city pressure

Not enough work to keep busy, so plumbers help out others.

Community advocate Claire Mahon established a Facebook page to encourage the residents to stay connected socially, not physically. Photo / Andrew Warner

Giving to others in an uncertain time

Rotorua citizens are thinking outside the box when it comes to caring for others.

Hire-a-mum website founder Ankita Sharma says women should stay connected during lockdown for the sake of their mental health. Photo / Supplied.

Covid-19 coronavirus: Website aims to keep women supported in lockdown

Prime Minister calls on people to remember to check on new mums during lockdown.

Phillip Macfarlane (left) operates his homemade wake boarding simulator for his son Rena, 8. Photo / Stephen Parker

Watch: Kiwi dad gets creative with lockdown boredom busters

Rotorua's Philip Macfarlane has demonstrated creativity and Kiwi ingenuity.

Mako Road band members Robbie Day, Rhian Ward, Connor Jaine and Connor Mcerlich. Photo/ Dane Scott

Music lovers stay tuned: New Zealand is in for a boom

Kiwi musicians in lockdown are using the time to create new music.

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Gold-rush cottages up for grabs

1 Apr, 2020 8:04am
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Heritage-themed homes in Coromandel for sale.

Art teacher Martin Vieregg has printed around 70 3D masks for Kapiti medical clinics.

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'Incredible, this is saving lives': Kiwi 3D printer owners' face mask lifeline

28 Mar, 2020 3:16pm
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3D printer owners have answered the call for 8000 plastic face masks.

SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - SEPTEMBER 21: Max Verstappen of Netherlands and Red Bull Racing and Red Bull Racing Team Consultant Dr Helmut Marko look on in the Pitlane during qualifying for the F1 Grand Pri

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F1 team's controversial 'Corona Camp' idea exposed

1 Apr, 2020 7:30am
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Red Bull's Helmut Marko wanted drivers to deliberately catch the virus to gain immunity.

Short documentary - One year on from the Mosque attacks

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On September 11, hospital workers were ready, but the patients never came. Photo / Getty Images

What 9/11 taught New York about confronting catastrophe

New York Times: Unused gurneys, a defining image from 9/11, have much to tell us today.

Demand is now down by as much as a quarter, or roughly 25m barrels a day. Photo / 123RF

Oil industry facing historic production shutdown

Financial Times: Crude oil in Texas changing hands for as little as US$7 a barrel.

Adam Castillejo underwent a bone marrow transplant that removed the virus from his body. Photo / Andrew Testa, The New York Times

'How I was cured of HIV': Adam Castillejo's extraordinary story

Times: He's the second person to beat HIV. He and his doctors tell the remarkable story.

French Foreign Legion soldiers from the Operation Barkhane Counterterrorism Force taking positions as Merlin helicopters land in northeastern Mali. Photo / Finbarr O'Reilly, The New York Times

Crisis in the Sahel becoming France's forever war

New York Times: French troops hunting Islamist militants in France's unwinnable war.

A subway passenger wearing a face mask aboard a train in the Utica Avenue station in Brooklyn. Photo / Juan Arredondo, The New York Times

New York was not designed for emptiness

New York Times: The traffic and the crowds are all gone. Only the vacant streets remain.

Researchers are moving quickly to develop a vaccine. Photo / Getty Images

Healthcare giants announce potential vaccine and rapid test

Financial Times: Johnson & Johnson and Abbott believe they are on track for a vaccine.

Nurses at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx gathered early Saturday to protest a shortage of protective equipment, including N95 masks. Photo / Gregg Vigliotti, The New York Times

New York: Nurses die, doctors fall sick and panic rises

New York Times: The pandemic has begun to sweep through New York City's medical ranks.

A General Motors plant in Kokomo, where GM and Ventec Life Systems plan to produce critical care ventilators designed by Ventec. Photo / AJ Mast/General Motors via The New York Times

Inside GM's race to build ventilators before Trump's attack

New York Times: The White House said GM 'wasting time' trying to make ventilators.

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Workers at a Covid-19 testing station in Mangere. Photo / Peter Meecham

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Covid 19: Got the symptoms? Expect to be tested now

1 Apr, 2020 5:00am

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Calls to allow frontline health workers to test patients themselves

1 Apr, 2020 8:03am
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First domestic flight for Kiwis quarantined in Auckland

1 Apr, 2020 6:24am
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Coronavirus: Struggling GPs handed financial lifeline

1 Apr, 2020 7:16am
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Wedding party, dementia group in seven new NZ clusters; Deadliest day in UK, Spain

1 Apr, 2020 7:10am
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Stranded Kiwi couple in India living off rationed bananas

1 Apr, 2020 7:00am
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'Trespassers will be boiled': Ohinemutu residents take action to keep visitors out

1 Apr, 2020 6:47am
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Armed Police guard the Masjid Al Noor, Deans Avenue Mosque, Christchurch. 17 March 2019 New Zealand Herald photograph by Michael Craig. WGP 21Mar19 - Armed police guard the Al Noor Mosque

The Ripple Effect: How the Christchurch mosque shootings shattered a nation's heart

Chapter One: Kurt Bayer goes inside "our darkest of days" and its aftermath.

The Ripple Effect: Life after March 15 - faith and new beginnings

Chapter Five: Some of the victims of March 15 reflect on that day and look to the future.

Sarah Sparks in 2019, seven years on from separating from husband Greg Olliver and a year away from the first substantive High Court hearing over property division. Photo / Doug Sherring

Inside a multi-million-dollar, eight-year divorce scrap

Sarah Sparks split from Greg Olliver eight years ago - and now it's heading to court.

Smartphone addiction: How to tell if you're hooked

Are you addicted to your smartphone? And can you kick the habit?

All about Grace: DI Scott Beard speaks to the Herald about the Millane murder case. Photo / Michael Craig

'Oh my God, what has he done?': Top cop reveals all about Millane investigation

Exclusive: Detective Inspector Scott Beard opens up about the Grace Millane investigation.

Fighting the Demon: Inside New Zealand's meth crisis

The Herald spent six months with users, recovering addicts and those trying to save them.

NZME's Sport News Director Steven Holloway spent eight weeks training to run a kilometre at the same pace Kenyan world record holder Eliud Kipchoge averaged late last year. Photos / Mike Scott

Chasing Kipchoge: A quest to run like the world's fastest man

Watch: 'For eight weeks I trained every day. I had no idea what I was getting into.'

Victims of the disaster came from all over New Zealand and the world. Photos / Supplied

Faces of Erebus: Families tell the stories of the 257 victims

The Herald has launched an interactive memorial

Whakaari/White Island erupted at 2.11pm on Monday. Photo / White Island Flights

White Island, black day: Inside the tragedy on Whakaari

The horror of the eruption, and the bravery that followed.

Politics

Covid 19: Got the symptoms? Expect to be tested now

PM says much more testing is needed to gauge how widespread virus is.

Dozens of new intensive care beds have been fast-tracked to treat Covid-19 patients in Christchurch if needed. Photo / 123RF

Over 30 ICU beds fast-tracked at Christchurch Hospital

The MoH is bumping up bed numbers at Christchurch Hospital's new Hagley building.

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield speaks to media. Photo / Getty

Coronavirus: What you need to know about Tuesday's big developments

Catch up on the big coronavirus stories of the day - in New Zealand and overseas.

Cancer patient Tegan Hollier, 26, on lockdown in Auckland, is about to start a critical part of her cancer treatment even as the country tries to contain the coronavirus outbreak. Photo / Supplied

Virus threat: 'Madness' for cancer sufferer, and a plea to Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern is being asked to open access to drugs Pharmac won't pay for.

Comment: Just when you thought the Opposition had become irrelevant

The Opposition had disappeared into irrelevance. Until now.

Finance minister Grant Robertson speaks during COVID-19 financial response package announcement at Parliament on March 17. Photo / Getty Images.

Nation building should be the start of a move to unity

Robertson should start move towards unity by ceding infrastructure planning to National.

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Fiscal prudence to $1b a week: Robertson's mammoth task

1 Apr, 2020 5:00am

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Juha Saarinen: New Medtech - Iron fist in a latex glove?

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$100m-plus deal cleared: Costco takes next step to open first NZ store

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Dire impact: Lockdown pulls retail spend to record-low territory

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Reserve Bank's latest emergency move ... and what comes next

30 Mar, 2020 5:54pm
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S&P Global says New Zealand's banks should be able to handle credit losses arising from the Covid-19 driven downturn. Photo / NZ Herald

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NZ banks should be able to absorb credit losses - S&P

1 Apr, 2020 5:00am
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S&P Global says banks should be able to handle the impact of the Covid-19 downturn.

How will the sector emerge, post-pandemic? Photo / Jason Oxenham

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New post-pandemic infrastructure group to spark $10m+ projects

1 Apr, 2020 7:00am
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Infrastructure projects of $10m-plus in the new group's orbit.

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Focus Live: PM Ardern defends wage subsidy scheme

30 Mar, 2020 5:54pm
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30 Mar, 2020 5:54pm
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Focus Live: Coronavirus - 58 new cases, 14 are in hospital, 74 have recovered, 657 in total

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Epidemiologist Sir David Skegg - 'We could effectively eliminate the virus over the next few weeks'

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Focus Live: PM sets up website for Kiwis to dob in lockdown price gouging

30 Mar, 2020 5:54pm
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NZ man's 'spy' network

30 Mar, 2020 12:00am
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Randal Scott and son. Photo / Mark Leedom.

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Keeping in touch with 28 whanau

23 Mar, 2020 12:00am
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20 Mar, 2020 12:00am
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First home sold sight unseen during virus lockdown

31 Mar, 2020 10:25am
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Buyers continue to "scratch the property itch" during lockdown.

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The big pause: Virus halts $4.3b worth of house sales

31 Mar, 2020 6:54am
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Massive backlog building as lockdown sees more than 5,000 real estate sales in limbo.

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Why Asia's new coronavirus controls should worry the world

1 Apr, 2020 8:08am

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The Conversation: Spike in racism is not new

1 Apr, 2020 7:39am
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Fear of Covid-19 has sparked some to react with violent racism towards Asian Americans.

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Un-baaaaa-lievable: Goats invade locked down town

1 Apr, 2020 7:07am
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It's thought that a lack of people has drawn the goats down from the hills nearby.

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Deadliest day: Spain, UK record biggest jump in coronavirus deaths

1 Apr, 2020 6:50am
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More than 800,000 cases of Covid 19 have now been confirmed across 178 countries.

New analysis of US coronavirus cases has pinpointed the day 2271 Americans are expected to die from the infection, and how long the pandemic will continue. Photo / Supplied

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Dire warning: Graph shows day most Americans will die from virus

31 Mar, 2020 9:56pm
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New analysis has pinpointed the day 2271 Americans are expected to die.

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29 Mar, 2020 5:00am
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