Daily Archives: April 9, 2020

Coronavirus: NZ could be ‘its own bubble’ by wiping out COVID-19 – researcher

 Two weeks into the lockdown, many of us will be sick and tired of being stuck in our bubbles. But what if we had a bubble of 5 million?  Health experts say if we manage to “squash” the curve, as a widely-shared Washington Post article about New Zealand put it on Wednesday, a border quarantine will stop…

Coronavirus: Kiwi health researcher claims China’s COVID-19 death toll at least 30,000

 A health data researcher says China’s coronavirus numbers have been vastly under-reported, perhaps by a factor of 10. At the moment, the country where the SARS-CoV-2 virus first emerged has reported a confirmed 82,809 cases of infection and 3333 deaths from COVID-19, the disease it causes. But Giresh Kanji of the University of Auckland…