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Garbled messaging goes viral

It was more than unfortunate that Auckland’s Lantern Festival was cancelled for no valid reason.

round the world, the media has struggled with how to cover the novel coronavirus episode, now christened Covid-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Is it the Next Great Plague ham-fistedly trying to be covered up by China, or has there been an overreaction to the on Waitangi Day, in which a journalist reported live from Christchurch that the city’s Night Noodle Markets would be unaffected, was abject.

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