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Tom Lee/Stuff More than 250,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine will expire before they are used. The Government announced a $40 million year-long measles vaccination catch-up campaign past July, when it said roughly 300,000 young adults aged between 15 and 30 were not immune to measles, as their immunisation rate is too low to prevent an outbreak. It followed the worst measles outbreak seen in two decades in March 2019, after a cluster of cases in Canterbury. More than 2000 people caught the disease, and nearly 800 were hospitalised. A review of the response found issues with vaccine distribution and public messaging, and suggested action should have been taken “much earlier”. ....
Reti wants go-slow on UNDRIP HASH(0x396b180) Too far too fast. That’s how National Party deputy leader Shane Reti sees the Government’s response to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson last week launched consultation with Māori on how the declaration could be implemented, saying it would not be bound by the ideas in He Puapua, a report written by an advisory panel. National has been attacking the Government over He Puapua, and Dr Reti says it’s still clearly Government policy. He says it’s not what National intended when it signed New Zealand up to the Declaration 11 years ago. ....
Reti wants go-slow on UNDRIP HASH(0x396b180) Too far too fast. That’s how National Party deputy leader Shane Reti sees the Government’s response to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson last week launched consultation with Māori on how the declaration could be implemented, saying it would not be bound by the ideas in He Puapua, a report written by an advisory panel. National has been attacking the Government over He Puapua, and Dr Reti says it’s still clearly Government policy. He says it’s not what National intended when it signed New Zealand up to the Declaration 11 years ago. ....
A sign at Waikato Hospital in May. Photo: RNZ / Andrew McRae And decisions that led to the poor security and ailing system were financially motivated, claimed the source close to Waikato DHB. However the DHB said the particular servers were not a contributing factor in the cyber attack. The information comes as those responsible for the ransomware attack dumped large tranches of the DHB s private patient and employee details on the dark web on Tuesday, six weeks after the hack crippled services across five hospitals including Waikato. The massive privacy breach shows swathes of files that contain personal and highly sensitive information about patients and employees. ....