Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Governments across the world have rolled out extensive financial packages to support individuals, businesses and large corporations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Equally, central banks have decreased their lending rates to almost zero, and have announced extensive and previously untested direct lending to private corporations and financial companies. In many …

Massey University’s Suze Wilson explains why she believes Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a masterclass in crisis leadership Imagine, if you can, what it’s like to make decisions on which the lives of tens of thousands of other people depend. If you get things wrong, or delay deciding, they die. Your decisions affect the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands …

There is an ongoing debate amongst experts about how effective masks are when used by the general public – particularly those that are not of surgical grade. This has been accelerated by cases demonstrated internationally where healthcare workers have been infected with the virus due to asymptomatic patients in the GP waiting room. The US Centers for Disease Control and …