Tagged: lockdown

Featured image: Lockdown, relax, repeat: how cities across the globe are going back to coronavirus restrictions

Lockdown, relax, repeat: how cities across the globe are going back to coronavirus restrictions - COVID-19

Guest Author • Jul 15, 2020 •

Maximilian de Courten, Victoria University; Bojana Klepac Pogrmilovic, Victoria University, and Rosemary V Calder, Victoria University The World Health Organisation reported more than 230,000 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday — the world’s largest daily increase during the pandemic. The surge has forced governments in many places across the world to order new lockdowns. This includes Melbourne, which is back … Read More

Featured image: Level with me

Level with me - COVID-19

Guest Author • Jul 03, 2020 •

Nik Green Much of the public debate about the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has focused on the extent to which government regulations have restricted personal and business activity. Oxford University Blavatnik School of Government Here in New Zealand, the question of when to change Alert Levels dominated the media and Parliament, with some arguing that the highly-restrictive … Read More

Featured image: Will the COVID-19 lockdown slow the effects of climate change?

Will the COVID-19 lockdown slow the effects of climate change? - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Jul 03, 2020 •

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Do you think the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown will slow or possibly reverse the effects of climate change (due … Read More

Featured image: Lockdown: the effect on children’s learning and wellbeing

Lockdown: the effect on children’s learning and wellbeing - COVID-19

Guest Author • May 12, 2020 •

Ron Crawford Lockdown hasn’t seemed too bad. I’m well set up to work from home, it’s been easy for me to take a walk on our nearby beach, and the weather has been mostly calm and sunny. Beach bubble – James Soligo I’ve noticed many families enjoying the opportunity to spend time together over the last few weeks – here … Read More

Featured image: Four types of Kiwi at Level 3

Four types of Kiwi at Level 3 - COVID-19

Guest Author • Apr 30, 2020 •

Jacqui Maguire, registered clinical psychologist Recently I was asked to predict how our nation would transition into level 3. My answer was that it’s never best to predict human behaviour when we don’t have an evidence-based blueprint. What I could guarantee is that we will not respond unanimously. As we begin this week at level 3, my educated guess … Read More

Featured image: Welcome to alert level three. Now let’s finish what we started

Welcome to alert level three. Now let’s finish what we started - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Apr 28, 2020 •

We wake today at alert level three. We are here because of the incredible job everyone has done while we have been in lockdown at alert level four. No one doubts how hard this has been for so many people. For their mental and physical wellbeing. For their livelihoods. This global pandemic has turned our world upside down. To everyone … Read More

Featured image: Studying the lockdown life

Studying the lockdown life - COVID-19

Guest Author • Apr 22, 2020 •

Associate Professor Leah Watkins and Associate Professor Rob Aitken   Living in lockdown is a rare phenomenon, and one that provides a unique opportunity to examine our spending habits. NZ lifestyles under the microscope Researchers at the University of Otago have been conducting an ongoing research programme designed to provide insights into the lifestyles, consumption patterns and behavioural … Read More

Featured image: Delight, relief and caution: six experts on New Zealand’s move to ease its coronavirus lockdown

Delight, relief and caution: six experts on New Zealand’s move to ease its coronavirus lockdown - COVID-19

Guest Author • Apr 21, 2020 •

Dougal Sutherland, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury; Malcolm Campbell, University of Canterbury; Martin Berka, Massey University; Michael Baker, University of Otago, and Richard Shaw, Massey University New Zealand will begin easing its national lockdown from next Tuesday, but only after a five-day extension of some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 restrictions. Read More

Featured image: About those cries of ‘over-reaction’ on NZ’s Covid-19 response

About those cries of ‘over-reaction’ on NZ’s Covid-19 response - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Apr 15, 2020 •

A group of six New Zealand academics yesterday announced their “vision for a balanced response” to the Covid-19 pandemic. They are calling that vision “Plan B”. They even have a website and a PR firm attached. They are clearly serious. Their plan is for New Zealand to return “to normality as soon … Read More