🇳🇿"New Zealand is experiencing its highest peak in COVID-19 cases since December 2022, professor Michael Baker says."
"Despite the recommended isolation period now only being 5 days, Baker suggested people still getting a positive Covid-19 test wait to test again on day 6 or 7 before going back into society."
"The biology hasn't changed," Baker said, but there was more pressure for people to go back to work and school."
The Evening Post, 27 May 1924:
WOMEN IN PRINT.
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Patriotic New Zealanders occasionally are shocked by the ignorance of those with whom they come in contact abroad of the whereabouts of the best little country in the world. The training of business men does not always include geography, says the Otago “Daily Times,” but a university should not fall into the crude error revealed in an envelope received in Dunedin. A member of the Otago University staff has been in communication with the University of Geneva, and was pained to receive from that distinguished seat of learning the other day a letter addressed: “University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, U.S.A.” https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240527.2.116
See also Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_of_New_Zealand_from_maps #OnThisDay#OTD#PapersPast#NewZealand#Geography#WhereIsNewZealand
So yes, I know the satellite trails can be processed out of the comet image I shared earlier. Here's a fully processed version showing Comet Pons Brooks on the evening of 4th May. The comet was very low in the sky from New Zealand at the time the images from which this composite has been assembled. #comet#ponsbrooks#NewZealand
Avalanche Peak part three: the way down. Quite cruisy through Scott's track, watching this crazy Devils Punchbowl waterfall that was definitively worth a peek, despites the extra hiking time at the end of the walk. Absolutely mesmerising, one of the most beautiful waterfall I saw in Aotearoa. #hike#hiking#mountain#mountains#waterfall#nature#Canterbury#AvalanchePeak#Aotearoa#NewZealand#NZ
This is quite interesting. (no... really!) I recently persuaded a colleague to take my pet Geiger counter from Dunedin to Apia via Auckland. The latitude dependency of the radiation exposure is fascinating! #radiation#NewZealand#physics
Just because I am taking a day off today, and am waiting to watch the Space Station cross the sun, here's a comparison between radiation levels you get when flying on an ATR 72 and an A320 Airbus. #radiation#NewZealand
One of the truly remarkable things about "The Mother's Day Aurora" was that, here in New Zealand, we tend to see the aurora low in the southern sky. Not this time! This was the view looking NORTH at 7:58pm! The whole sky was green! #aurora#NewZealand#beauty
The coaltion of puritans rages on. We all knew Luxon had it in his wheel house but then Seymour and Winnie... well they've tossed their 'freedom' and 'libertarian' ways to the side. With an ease that suggested they never cared about freedom or the individual in the first place.
The Prime Minister has been heavily criticised after documents from his government criticising Australia and New Zealand against China were leaked to media. The leaked document from Tonga’s Foreign Affairs Ministry shows that kingdom’s officials sharply criticised Australia and New Zealand’s response to the security pact...
I have just found another image from last weekend's auroral display. This was taken at 20:51:58 from Lake Aviemore, New Zealand. It shows one of the lovely aurora corona's seen on the night. #aurora#corona#NewZealand
Coronal Aurora, as seen from Lake Aviemore, 00:34 on 12/5/2024. In a coronal aurora, lines converge at the magnetic zenith in a stunning "crown" shape It's beautiful #aurora#auroraaustralis#NewZealand
There are moments when you have to say, Mother nature is awesome. One such moment occurred at Lake Aviemore last night at 02:25:45. This is three five second exposures combined to make a panorama. WOW! #aurora#auroraaustralis#beauty#NewZealand
i just realised I took 15,000 images during last night's auroral display. Here's another one, this taken at 00:27 with an exposure of 2.5 seconds. #Beauty#aurora#astronomy#newzealand
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Awesome night at Lake Aviemore. the sky was clear and the aurora Australis was. UNBELIEVABLE. Here's a timelapse I shot earlier this evening. I've been up 28 hours and OMG! #aurora#auriraaustralis#NewZealand
Tongan diaspora blasts PM Hu‘akavameiliku over leaked document supporting China against Australia, NZ over involvement in Solomon Islands (www.kanivatonga.co.nz)
The Prime Minister has been heavily criticised after documents from his government criticising Australia and New Zealand against China were leaked to media. The leaked document from Tonga’s Foreign Affairs Ministry shows that kingdom’s officials sharply criticised Australia and New Zealand’s response to the security pact...