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Pharmac back-tracks on plan to fund lung cancer drug Keytruda
22 Apr 2020The drug agency says budget pressures caused by Covid-19 have forced it to freeze plans to fund a drug that would have helped at least 1400 cancer patients a year.
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Concerns prisons will turn into Covid-19 'quarantine facilities'
22 Apr 2020Leading defence lawyers are taking on the solicitor-general after she told prosecutors to oppose bail if a defendant was suspected of having the coronavirus.
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SFO decision over NZ First Foundation will come before election
21 Apr 2020The Serious Fraud Office says it will decide by September whether to lay charges in its investigation relating to the foundation bankrolling NZ First.
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Virus, recession and 'institutional racism at all levels' hit Māori, Pasifika
17 Apr 2020Māori and Pasifika populations are more vulnerable to Covid-19 and the effects of a recession. The combination could be devastating, reports Susan Strongman.
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Covid-19 testing: 'I was angry about the process'
10 Apr 2020First Person - "Don't hang up on me," pleaded Geoff Muliaga Brown, when he awoke to a voice on the line. "I can't breathe, I'm struggling, I'm really worried." Video
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How NZ's level 4 Covid-19 lockdown might end
It's the question on everyone's mind - so RNZ asked experts how and when the level 4 restrictions might be lifted.
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Prisoners kept in solitary during outbreak - prison reform group
8 Apr 2020Four families have now come forward telling RNZ that inmates across the country are being confined to their cells for 23 or more hours a day.
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Faith in quarantine: How religion has been affected by Covid-19
7 Apr 2020Churches and mosques around the country are now closed. Here's how religious New Zealanders are adjusting, and what they believe the pandemic means.
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Covid-19: Prisoners in cells up to 23 hours a day - guards
6 Apr 2020Prison guards say they are having to confine prisoners to their cells for between 20 and 23 hours a day to manage physical distancing.
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One street: Life under lockdown
3 Apr 2020It took a pandemic for Kate Newton's Auckland street to meet their neighbours. Now they're forging a new network over fences and through text messages.
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The people leading NZ's fight against Covid-19
1 Apr 2020Ashley Bloomfield, Sarah Stuart-Black and Juliet Gerrard have all become household names, but who are they?
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The man modelling NZ's Covid-19 spread from his kitchen table
27 Mar 2020A month ago Shaun Hendy realised the coronavirus was 'gonna be bad' and set up a team to model the spread. Here's how they are predicting what might happen.
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Interactive: How Covid-19 arrived in New Zealand
26 Mar 2020Use RNZ's interactive globe to see where people testing positive for the coronavirus flew from.
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Cramped, rotting and risky: Scale of the hospital fix-up revealed
Insight - The state of many public hospital buildings is compromising medical care and there's been a national stocktake. Phil Pennington looks at what's wrong, and asks if it can be fixed. Audio
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A timeline: How Covid-19 started, spread and stalled life in NZ
20 Mar 2020The economy is in turmoil, scared Kiwis are stockpiling and travellers are self-isolating. How did we get here? Susan Strongman tells us.
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Christchurch mosque attack survivor fears for future
13 Mar 2020Insight - A chef shot in the mosque attacks last year fears his young family will not be able to afford rent when they are moved out of their temporary housing, Conan Young reports. Audio
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Immunosuppressed with a premature baby during Covid-19
27 Mar 2020A mother vulnerable to the coronavirus after a kidney transplant also has a premature baby at risk.
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How Muslim women tried to warn of impending danger
Insight - The Islamic Women's Council believes it's likely the mosque attacks would never have happened if the police and security agencies had not ignored their repeated warnings. Audio
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Lockdown could buy time for a coronavirus vaccine - modelling
27 Mar 2020New modelling shows the lockdown could buy us time, but cases of Covid-19 will still peak well beyond hospital capacity as soon as it ends.
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NZ First Foundation: Rich-listers donate $100k in a week
27 Feb 2020The New Zealand First Foundation received $100,000 in just one week from two rich-listers, whose donations remained secret because the individual payments fell below the disclosure threshold.
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Concerns over secret fisheries donations to NZ First Foundation
25 Feb 2020One of the country's biggest fishing companies, Talley's, and its managing director donated nearly $27,000 to the New Zealand First Foundation.
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NZ First Foundation trustee was lobbying for donor
18 Feb 2020A lobbying firm run by a NZ First Foundation trustee pushed for a law change on behalf of a property development company, which then donated tens of thousands of dollars to the foundation.
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Giant skeleton searchers call off dig
17 Feb 2020A secretive group who spent four years tunnelling into the side of a country road in search of a mythical race of pre-Polynesian giants' skeletons have called off their dig, Susan Strongman reports. Audio
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Concerns over secret search for giants' bones near Huntly
14 Feb 2020A secretive group excavating a cave they believe is filled with a race of 8-foot-tall pre-Polynesian giants' skeletons have iwi and archaeologists worried.
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