Breadcrumbs List.
Coronavirus
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Welcome to alert level three. Now let’s finish what we started.
28 April 2020
Opinion: After five weeks in the strict Covid-19 lockdown of alert level four, New Zealand today begins life in a less stringent version, alert level three. In a message to New Zealanders, Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles warns this may be the trickiest phase yet.
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What’s driving the lockdown protests over Covid-19?
28 April 2020
Opinion: Protests over Covid-19 lockdowns have erupted around the world, but what's causing them? Robert Bartholomew explores what history tells us about epidemics and civil unrest.
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The lowdown on lockdown learning
28 April 2020
ZhuZhu (Judy) Jin is studying her first year of a conjoint Design and Commerce degree, and it's not quite as she expected!
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What do we mean when we talk about the ‘elimination’ of Covid-19?
24 April 2020
Opinion: New Zealand is pursuing an ‘elimination’ strategy to counter the coronavirus pandemic. But that word, as with many terms in science, is not necessarily the same as its common usage, explains Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles.
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Creative resource ready for teachers as schools go back
24 April 2020
In response to Covid-19, a project to support primary school teachers with a rich, arts-based set of resources when they return to school next week has been developed by a team at the University of Auckland.
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Covid-19 could trigger systemic change
24 April 2020
Opinion: Will we advance the low-consuming, low-energy, low-mobility lifestyle the pandemic has forced upon us? Klaus Bosselmann says this could be the virus’s legacy.
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Covid-19 mass surveillance terrifying for the future
23 April 2020
Opinion: In uncertain times, surveillance is being offered to fight the bigger enemy. Matt Bartlett argues we shouldn't be too quick to embrace our new saviour.
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What we know about children and Covid-19
23 April 2020
Opinion: A lot of people are very reasonably concerned about the implications of schools and early childhood education reopening. Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles explains what the latest studies can tell us about the risks.
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The art goes on, with loo rolls
23 April 2020
These are hard-to-describe times, but Dr Mark Harvey of Dance Studies has explored them from the perspective of his Labrador, Lara, with humour and a sense of the absurd.
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Thousands of face shields designed by ABI researchers produced for healthcare workers around New Zealand
22 April 2020
Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) and MedTech CoRE researchers have designed a re-usable face shield to help keep medical staff safe when they’re treating patients infected with Covid-19.
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Just how widespread is Covid-19 in people with no symptoms?
22 April 2020
Stories from Iceland and the United States report that 50-60% of people who tested positive for Covid-19 were asymptomatic. But the numbers may not be what they first seem, Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles discovered.
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40,000 students, 6,000 staff online in 48 hours
22 April 2020
As Covid-19 hit home, all staff and students at the University of Auckland needed to be able to teach, learn and work entirely off campus within 48 hours.