15/08/2020 New Zealand's first case of the coronavirus was diagnosed on February 26th. That was the same week that China's joint mission report on COVID-19 showed that SARS was behaving more like a severe respiratory syndrome than like the flu, meaning it was possible to contain the virus. Shown above are daily new cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand, including both confirmed (blue) and probable (red)
01/09/2021 New Zealand has recorded 75 new cases of Covid-19, a bounce upward after two days of seeing cases decline. The director general of health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, said on Tuesday the increase was “not unexpected” and noted that during New Zealand’s previous outbreak, case numbers did move up and down somewhat day-to-day, while still tracking down overall.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand’s tourism flows were disrupted. On March 19th, 2020, the New Zealand government closed the borders to everyone except New Zealand citizens and permanent residents (“History of the COVID-19 Alert System” n.d.). This closure led to a 94.2% drop in visitor arrivals between February 2020 and February of
13/10/2020 New Zealand’s great education decline and the future of work. The rise of automation, artificial intelligence and pressures from developing economies are threatening low-skilled and unskilled jobs. Never has the need for school leavers to be well-educated been more important than today. Yet something is rotten at the core of New Zealand’s
17/09/2020 New Zealand is in its deepest recession in decades, following strict measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic which were widely praised. The country's GDP shrank by
13/11/2019 Over that period, the proportion of New Zealand's population living in major urban areas went up 8 percent, while the proportion in rural settlements dropped 25 percent. The sharpest decline in population has been in Ōhura, after the closure of state-owned coal mines in the 1970s. In 1964, the King Country settlement's population peaked at 654. By 1996 it had dropped to 390 and it now sits at
New Zealand’s statistics agency also revised the decline in gross domestic product in the June quarter to 11 per cent, from previous estimates of a 12.2 per cent contraction. However, the damage
13/11/2019 Over that period, the proportion of New Zealand's population living in major urban areas went up 8 per cent, while the proportion in rural settlements dropped 25 per cent. The sharpest decline
18/03/2021 New Zealand released official data showing its economy shrank by 2.9% in 2020, owing to the coronavirus pandemic. "The decline in annual gross domestic product is
10/09/2021 As the departures and arrivals across the New Zealand line fell in July 2021 from the past two months, because of continuous interferences to two-way isolate free travel with Australia
17/09/2020 New Zealand is in its deepest recession in decades, following strict measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic which were widely praised. The country's GDP shrank by
01/09/2021 New Zealand has recorded 75 new cases of Covid-19, a bounce upward after two days of seeing cases decline. The director general of health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, said on Tuesday the increase was “not unexpected” and noted that during New Zealand’s previous outbreak, case numbers did move up and down somewhat day-to-day, while still tracking down overall.
13/11/2019 Over that period, the proportion of New Zealand's population living in major urban areas went up 8 percent, while the proportion in rural settlements dropped 25 percent. The sharpest decline in population has been in Ōhura, after the closure of state-owned coal mines in the 1970s. In 1964, the King Country settlement's population peaked at 654. By 1996 it had dropped to 390 and it now sits at
17/09/2020 New Zealand is one of the last developed countries to calculate the decline in its second-quarter GDP. The average fall in GDP across the OECD has been 10.6 per cent. Australia and the United
31/08/2021 New Zealand's government on Tuesday reported that new COVID-19 cases fell for a second day, down to 49, amid the tight lockdown the country
14/10/2020 In Horowhenua, Ngāti Raukawa ki te tonga have noticed a decline in tuna (eels), one of their most prized taonga. Research points to climate change impacts on ocean currents and the tuna’s food chain, as well as changes to its habitat, as affecting the species’ sensitive life cycle. (page 54) New Zealand’s mean relative sea-level has risen by 1.81 (±0.05) millimetres per year on average
13/11/2019 Over that period, the proportion of New Zealand's population living in major urban areas went up 8 per cent, while the proportion in rural settlements dropped 25 per cent. The sharpest decline
Biodiversity decline. Many of New Zealand’s indigenous plants and animals are found nowhere else in the world but these unique treasures are being lost at a frightening rate. We are looking at extinction rates a thousand times higher than the natural rate. We have positive conservation stories for a small minority of our native animal species but these require active management to maintain
13/11/2019 Over that period, the proportion of New Zealand's population living in major urban areas went up 8 per cent, while the proportion in rural settlements dropped 25 per cent. The sharpest decline
13/10/2020 New Zealand’s great education decline and the future of work. The rise of automation, artificial intelligence and pressures from developing economies are threatening low-skilled and unskilled jobs. Never has the need for school leavers to be well-educated been more important than today. Yet something is rotten at the core of New Zealand’s
In short, New Zealand’s latest outbreak has merely reinforced pre-existing convictions on both sides of the Zero Covid argument. But the reality is more complex. While New Zealand has pursued an aggressive elimination strategy, it has — until now — worked, and at relatively low political, economic and social costs. Indeed, the more urgent question now is whether the country’s relative
07/08/2021 Whaling has also ceased to be the obstacle it once was, after Japan stopped hunting whales in the Southern Ocean in 2018. But New Zealand’s relationship with Japan might be
31/08/2021 New Zealand’s largest city Auckland will remain in lockdown for two more weeks despite the mounting decline in coronavirus cases, while the health ministry reported the country’s first death linked to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Only 53 new Covid-19 infections were reported in New Zealand on Monday, 30 less than on Sunday and the lowest figure in the last five days, according to the
12/08/2021 New Zealand will start to open borders in 2022. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has outlined the country’s plans to lift travel restrictions. For the second half of 2021, the country’s priority is to get residents vaccinated, with all adults being eligible for a vaccine by September 1.
18/08/2021 Ben Udy at Capital Economics said a quarterly decline in GDP was likely if the measures were extended. “Even if the whole of New Zealand is just in
Apart from Canada, all countries that we monitor (Canada, UK, USA Australia and New Zealand) have experienced a decline in private sector union membership density, with the greatest reduction in Australia. In 2008 Australia’s private sector union density was 14 percent and in August 2018 it was down to nine percent. In the UK there was a three percentage-point drop to 13 percent and in the
15/07/2021 From the rise of social media to dramatic change in the education system, many reasons are offered to explain New Zealand’s decline in international literacy assessments. Stuart McNaughton says a single cause is very unlikely. The international studies suggest an overall downward trend in excellence as measured by levels of achievement, and overall, limited changes in disparities. There
01/04/2014 The extinction of New Zealand's moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) followed the arrival of humans in the late 13th century and was the final event of the prehistoric Late Quaternary megafauna extinctions. Determining the state of the moa populations in the pre-extinction period is fundamental to understanding the causes of the event. We sampled 281 moa individuals and combined radiocarbon