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Covid 19 Omicron: Is our rising death toll taking the humanity of the living too?

Cherie Howie
Reporter·NZ Herald·
14 mins to read
Covid 19 Omicron: Is our rising death toll taking the humanity of the living too?
The finish line of the Covid-19 pandemic is unknown and so, often, are the names of those whose lives its taken. Photo / Brett Phibbs

There are more of them than populate the northern South Island town of Tākaka, but we don't speak their names. Two and a half years into a pandemic which has taken 1529 Kiwi lives, have we lost our humanity? Or are we fighting to hold on to it? Cherie Howie .

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