Counties Manukau District Health Board is short 150 nurses, a revelation the New Zealand Nurses Organisation is calling outrageous. The shortages were highlighted during the parliamentary health select committee’s annual review of the DHB yesterday. Chief nurse Jenny Parr said it was a problem as the DHB tries to juggle staff working in managed isolation […]
By Leigh Thomas and Lucia Mutikani PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Business activity collapsed from Australia, Japan and Western Europe to the United States at a record pace in March as measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic hammer the world economy, cementing economists’ views of a deep global recession. The highly contagious coronavirus, which causes a respiratory […]
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. trade deficit fell for the first time in six years in 2019 as the White House’s trade war with China curbed the import bill, keeping the economy on a moderate growth path despite a slowdown in consumer spending and weak business investment. The report from the Commerce […]
