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Old 17-10-2021, 14:59   #31
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“Jacinda Ardern’s COVID stumble may cost Maori lives” ~ OPINION by Aaron Smale
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More ➥ https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2...st-maori-lives
I'm afraid Aaron Smale has an agenda and his 'opinion' piece is seriously flawed to the extent that it is mainly bollox.

Full details of the vaccine rollout and how it was prioritised can be found here.
https://covid19.govt.nz/alert-levels...e-rollout-plan

from the guvment document

'Key points
A targeted COVID-19 vaccine rollout over next 3-4 months will start to reach 2 million people in most at risk groups.
The plan prioritises people most at risk of harm if they get the virus and those who live and work in places where they are most likely to pick up COVID-19.
Those in South Auckland who’re over 65 or who have underlying health issues to start being vaccinated from the end of March.

Those living in South Auckland/Manakau are primarily Māori and Pacifika and they have a lot of underlying conditions. They are not Pakeha boomers.



'This is a balanced plan that prioritises reducing the chance of future outbreaks while protecting our elders, those with underlying health conditions and those who live in locations where we know outbreaks have occurred.'

Once again that is directly aimed at Māori and Pacifika peoples

And again
'Priority groups
Approximately 40,000 courses are being allocated to Māori and Pacific providers who are working directly with older people, and we are also recognising the special circumstances of South Auckland.

Anyone who lives in the Counties Manukau DHB area who is 65 and older or who has an underlying health condition is also in Group 2. This recognises that there are many border operations and MIQ facilities and their workforces based in this area.'

Both Māori and Pacifika have been resisting vaccination largely based on the advice of their church leaders although after a few of the faithful died the advice in the Pacifika community has largely changed. The government has been working very hard at getting the Māori vaccinated.

This is the current reality in New Zealand.
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Yes, the statistics (and various opinion pieces that negatively focus on them) are somewhat skewed for various reasons.

One in particular being that Māori and Pasifika people are disproportionately represented in the younger age categories so even though their over 65 and vulnerable groups were prioritised their younger age groups didn't have access to the vaccine until relatively recently.

That being said there is still a much higher percentage of hesitancy amongst those groups too, mostly because of disinformation via the type and source of media that they consume.

NZ has mostly reached the point now where everyone who wanted to get vaccinated has already been vaccinated (although some may still need their second dose).

So now it's a case of running 'mop up' operations to target those who are hesitant, regardless of what the reason might be, and offering whatever incentives are deemed necessary.

Additionally I think that as summer really starts to arrive, and not being vaccinated really starts to restrict people's lifestyle activities, especially younger people's, then this will also encourage some more of the hesitant people to get vaccinated.

Then there are also the various mandates regarding workplaces and travel that will start to come into force in due course too, and that will also encourage another group who are still hesitant.

Finally, as has been seen in Australia recently and elsewhere too of course, there remains the delicate balancing act between restrictions and compliance.

Most of the restrictions rely on the general public simply 'doing the right thing', and when it gets to the point where they are no longer doing that then all the restrictions in the world won't help (unless draconian measures like martial law are imposed to enforce them).

Hence the small 'carrots' that are now being offered in the Auckland region by way of small reductions in some restrictions.

However it is highly unlikely that there will be any wholesale removal of restrictions anytime soon.

I would look closer towards Christmas for that to happen, by which stage many more of the 'mop up' operations will have been completed.


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One of the challenges with reaching Maori particularly is that many live in small and isolated communities that have no readily available healthcare. What the vaccine rollout continues to miss out are mobile vaccination buses or vans that are sent not just to suburban South Auckland but also to the far north, west coast, and the other far flung areas, as well as involving Maori and Pacifica community organisations in providing vaccinations. For some reason neither are being done. I guess the government is still focused on talking well but not necessarily doing well. Sigh.
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No Jab - No Job

New Zealand, which has abandoned its COVID-Zero strategy, amid persistent infections, introduced, last week, a “no jab, no job” [1] policy, for doctors and teachers, while neighbouring Fiji says all of its public, and private sector workers, are liable to lose their jobs, if they fail to get fully inoculated by November.

[1] Mandatory vaccination for two workforces” ~ 11 Oct 2021
https://covid19.govt.nz/alert-levels...wo-workforces/

Video Media Conference Oct. 11 ➥ https://youtu.be/PN8AKzz_HGw

“Majority support for 'no jab, no job' across several sectors - new poll”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...NKEBWOPQTM3WU/

New Zealand has announced a "no jab, no job" policy for most healthcare workers and teachers. Doctors, nurses and other frontline health workers must be fully vaccinated by the start of December. People working in the education sector must have their two doses by the new year. The government says it is not leaving anything to chance as it prepares to live with COVID-19. Infections are on a downward trend, but restrictions in Auckland have been extended for another week.

CNA News Video ➥ https://youtu.be/01intSQYl14

N.Z. Covid-19 vaccination by the numbers
FULLY VACCINATED: 2,771,914 [63.89%]
HAD 1 OR MORE DOSES: 3,572,298 [82.33%]
TOTAL DOSES ADMINISTERED: 6,344,212
Source: Ministry of Health, Data as of Oct 17, 2021
Percentages relative to 2020 estimate of the 12+ population.
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One of the challenges with reaching Maori particularly is that many live in small and isolated communities that have no readily available healthcare. What the vaccine rollout continues to miss out are mobile vaccination buses or vans that are sent not just to suburban South Auckland but also to the far north, west coast, and the other far flung areas, as well as involving Maori and Pacifica community organisations in providing vaccinations. For some reason neither are being done. I guess the government is still focused on talking well but not necessarily doing well. Sigh.
It really is complicated. Until I went on my big hol in July I didn't realise how remote some bits of the North Island were.
This was before last weekend's 'big push'
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...isers-say?rm=a

This was the other day
https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/30...vax-fundraiser
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“New Zealand authorities search for Covid-positive quarantine escapee” ~ by Tess McClure - The Guardian
New Zealand officials are searching for a Covid-positive escapee, who allegedly absconded from quarantine, after being allowed home, to check in on a pet.
More ➥ https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-says-minister
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An interesting piece
https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/30...doning-level-4

'Māori Cases

Auckland Māori are vulnerable. Māori are 16.7 per cent of the population. We were 5.7 per cent of all cases on September 1.

On Thursday, Māori were 45.1 per cent of the new 102-case record, 44.9 per cent of all Delta level 3 cases, 29.8 per cent of all cases in the outbreak, 44.2 per cent of all active cases, 23.5 per cent of all those hospitalised and 50 per cent of deaths.'


I don't think the Auckland Māori can blame government neglect or isolation for this.
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Here is the official data split by Ethnicity and District Health Board (area) for the whole of NZ: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/...9-vaccine-data

What's clear from that data is that even outside Auckland or other major centres Maori over the age of 65 are vaccinated at a rate approximately on par to the rate of doses for Non-Māori and Non-Pacific groups. And Maori aged 50-64 are close behind.

So in simple terms, those Maori are vaccinated almost equally to European and Asian.

This says to me that despite claims to the contrary, in general there is not a huge problem with vaccine availability to the Maori population throughout most parts of NZ.

The problem is with the younger age group, especially 12-34 year old Maori, who are only getting vaccinated at around 50% of the rate compared to Non-Māori and Non-Pacific groups - and even at only around 60% compared to other Maori who are over the age of 50.

So in simple terms, Maori Parents and Grandparents are getting vaccinated, but their Children and Grandchildren are not.

This is not so much a problem of vaccine availability as it is vaccine hesitancy stemming from misinformation and apathy amongst that younger age group.

That still needs to be addressed of course, not only for Maori health, but for the nation's health.

The rate has gone signficantly up in recent weeks for the younger age group though. I remember when it was down at 20-30%. But to be fair the younger age category were also the last category to whom vaccines were made available, and there are disproportionally more Maori in that age group too, so they are still catching up.

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Today the new 'Covid Framework / Traffic Light System' was announced in NZ.

In extremely simple terms the country needs to reach an average of 90% fully vaccinated before this system will start operating.

Auckland will be permitted to move to this system before the rest of the country if the 90% is reached earlier.

Overall, Auckland is sitting at an average of 89% first doses and 74% second doses.

However when the data starts to get broken down by DHB area, and then by suburb, and further by ethnicity, it starts to go a bit pear shaped... with some areas of high Maori and or Pasifika populations having much lower rates overall.

Or even in areas with a high average rate, when looking by ethnicity the Maori rate can be frighteningly low, even though in Auckland there is certainly no problem regarding access to vaccinations.


Covid-19: How far away is Auckland from 90 per cent fully vaccinated target
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...cinated-target

"In Ōtara West, 48.3 per cent of residents have had both doses. In Ferguson, in Counties Manukau, 49.6 per cent of residents are fully vaccinated. And 49.7 per cent of residents living in Papakura Kelvin have had both doses."

"Thirteen suburbs, all in the greater South Auckland region, have double-dose vaccination rates between 50 and 55 per cent, including Ōtara central, east and south, Māngere west and Wattle Downs north."

"These figures are averages overall... (but) In Henderson Lincoln, for example, 70 per cent of residents are fully vaccinated. When you look just at the number of fully vaccinated Māori in this area, this plummets to just 16 per cent."


16% !!!
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New Zealand’s South Island records first Covid cases in major city in over a year
“New Zealand’s South Island has recorded its first Covid cases in a major city in over a year, with two cases detected in Christchurch...
... Both of Thursday’s new cases were members of the same household, and one had recently returned from Auckland...
... the two infected people were co-operating with authorities but had not been scanning in using New Zealand’s location tracing app – a detail which may make contact tracing more difficult.
Both are unvaccinated.”
More ➥ https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...in-over-a-year
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The nation island of Tonga has reported its first coronavirus infection since the beginning of the pandemic after a passenger [1 of 215] travelling from Christchurch, New Zealand tested positive.
PM Tu’i’onetoa said the government was planning to make an announcement on Monday, on whether a national lockdown will be imposed, Matangitonga news reported.
Tonga is home to about 106,000 people. About 31 percent of Tongans are fully vaccinated, and 48 percent have had at least one dose.

See ➥ https://twitter.com/TongaNews/status...ronavirus-case

PM confirms Tonga's first positive COVID-19 test in MIQ ➥ https://matangitonga.to/2021/10/29/p...a-covid-19-miq

PM urges Tongatapu to prepare for lockdown ➥ https://matangitonga.to/2021/10/29/p...epare-lockdown
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Vaccine passes have now been introduced in NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...ms-over-summer
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This should concentrate the mind of the NZ government. There will be a lot of unhappy locals.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/trave...-and-australia

'Air New Zealand says it is cancelling more than 1000 flights between Aotearoa and Australia from now to the end of the year due to border uncertainty.

The airline estimates about 20,000 travellers will be affected.

The news follows other flight cancellations made since trans-Tasman quarantine-free travel was first paused.

"Now, due to recent statements by the New Zealand Government that quarantine-free travel between Australia and New Zealand is unlikely to re-commence this year, we've had to make the difficult decision to change our schedule," chief customer and sales officer Leanne Geraghty said in a statement.'
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New Zealand has just announced a timetable for international border re-opening starting with returning kiwis not needing hotel quarantine from January 17th.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/...rder-reopening
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