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New RAT run - Mainfreight heads test replacement push
While big companies reorder rapid antigen tests lost to the government stockpile, Customs has seized tens of thousands of unapproved tests.
Policy
End of the line for NZ tobacco companies?
With low nicotine requirements on the cards, tobacco companies will have to rethink their NZ market.
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RATs for new 'return to work' approach
To avoid omicron chaos, the government has announced a new 'test to return to work' approach.
Policy
Millions missing out on booster protection
Bringing forward booster doses will provide better protection ahead of the omicron peak, professor Michael Baker says.
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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.
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