News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Jacinda Arden has finally given up on her bonkers Zero Covid policy. From today, New Zealanders will be able to return to their country. Some have been stranded overseas for more than a year.
New Zealand will lift COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions after the Omicron peak has passed, Jacinda Ardern has said, as protesters occupying the parliament grounds again clashed with police.
The New Zealand Government has said the protest outside Parliament is a police matter. But the police tried and failed to remove it this week as clips of the violence went viral. It needs a political solution.
Freedom Convoy protests continue in Canada, France and New Zealand – three countries where extreme responses to Covid have persisted for two years and where the unvaccinated are targeted with harsh restrictions.
A pregnant New Zealand journalist stranded in Afghanistan for months has found the Taliban more helpful than her own Government, which has failed to let her back in.
Toothy tyrant Jacinda Arden imposes draconian new restrictions in New Zealand after 84 people test positive for Omicron on Saturday, refusing to abandon her crackpot Zero Covid policy.
From Monday, teachers in New Zealand must have received the first dose of a Covid vaccine if they are to continue to work in the classroom.
New Zealand has extended its lockdown, introducing more restrictions as the Delta variant spreads beyond Auckland. When will Jacinda Ardern admit defeat and acknowledge that the Zero Covid policy is a pipe dream?
New Zealand has reported its first death linked to the Pfizer Covid vaccine, but health officials are keen to point out that they "remain confident about using it".
Who could've predicted this? New Zealand's COVID-19 Response Minister has acknowledged that the "zero-Covid" policy hasn't worked, as an outbreak of the Delta variant continues to spread across the country.
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