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Kiwi tech firms helping prevent global covid infections

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Auckland - Kiwi tech companies Blue Mirror, Jupl and Serentia Healthcare have partnered to protect frontline New Zealand and global healthcare workers while treating covid infected patients. More than 1700 nurses have died of covid in the northern hemisphere and many more have infected patients and co-workers, Serentia Healthcare founder Sir Ray

Two new covid vaccines secured: enough for every Kiwi

by Kip Brook - 293

Wellington - The government has just secured two new covid vaccines. A total of 15 million vaccine courses have been pre-ordered to date. Vaccines will be free to the public and systems are on track to deliver the first vaccines to border workers in the second quarter of 2021, with vaccination of

Proportion of home owners less than 70 years ago

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Christchurch - The proportion of people living in their own home is lower now than almost 70 years ago, a new report says. Home ownership is becoming much less common for younger people, the Stats NZ report shows. The2018 census data shows homeownership peaked in the 1990s at 74 percent and by 2018

Steady exercising does count, ExerciseNZ says

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Christchurch - Every Kiwi adult should throw out the idea that if they are not throwing themselves into a sweat-drenching workout for more than an hour it doesn’t count, ExerciseNZ chief executive Richard Beddie says. New Zealanders must get more physically active. He says an obesity epidemic is gripping the country which

Game developers’ growth just part of rampant Kiwi tech sector

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Auckland - New Zealand game developers’ $323.9 million earnings in the last financial year is a perfect example of just what is happening across the rampant tech sector, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. It is fantastic to see the continued growth of New Zealand’s interactive media and game developers, making

Kiwis: spending, spending…selling!

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Christchurch - Shoppers spent more on long-lasting goods such as cell phones and laptops in November than last year, but almost a third more Kiwis sold their houses last month compared with 2019. Total retail card spending rose 1.4 percent in November 2020, up $85 million, compared with November 2019. Some sectors, like

Some of NZ’s rarest old cars go under the hammer

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Auckland – One of the biggest ever auctions of New Zealand’s coolest old cars goes under the hammer in Auckland on Sunday. Webb’s auction house is putting up 83 lots which are expecting to fetch more than $3.5 million which could be a New Zealand record for the Auckland auctioneers. Among the

First exercise day of 2021 just weeks away

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Christchurch - The first days of 2021 are just weeks away, raising the spectre of the annual tradition of resolutions, such as getting fitter. Healthier behaviours are valued more since covid arrived so 2021 promises to be a more active year for Kiwis, ExerciseNZ chief executive Richard Beddie says. A recent American survey