Christchurch s Burnside Highschool is the latest to isolate some students due to Wellington s Covid scare
Christchurch s Burnside Highschool is the latest to isolate some students due to Wellington s Covid scare 25 June 2021
Wellington entered Alert Level Two on Wednesday after a Covid-positive Australian man visited the city last weekend.
Haeata Community Campus and Ashburton College also have connections to locations the Sydney man visited.
Burnside High School Principal Phil Holstein says there are a small number of students away from school after being in Wellington last weekend.
He says they ve asked them to get tested and wait at home until they get their results.
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“If you’re wanting to detect whether something is present, for instance it might be E. coli in the water, or it might be cyanobacteria in the water, or even Covid-19, you use molecular biology, or DNA amplification technologies, to search in to the sample to see whether it’s present, Broom said. “So we’ve come up with an instrument that does it fast and simply, at a constant temperature, and it works off a smartphone.
BRYA INGRAM/STUFF Broom said a portable instrument was taken to the field to undertake research. DNAiTECH was the recipient of an “Unlocking Curious Minds” regional grant from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment for 2020, for running a workshop to engage secondary students with science and technology.
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Anita Jessett is a solo mother of five who has survived domestic violence. She lives with three of her children, including two with special needs, and works hard to make ends meet.
As the sting of Covid-19 hits home, Making Ends Meet, an ongoing series by reporter VICKI ANDERSON and visual journalist CHRIS SKELTON, offers a voice to those living and working on the frontlines of poverty. Anita Jessett is painfully aware of the “always negative stereotype” of a solo mum on a benefit. “I’d like to see the haters try to manage,’’ she says, rolling a cigarette in her Kainga Ora home in Aranui, Christchurch. “The beneficiary bashers . because of Covid, more people are finding out how hard it is.