Coronavirus latest, Anzac day at home and a rare fishy find

If this email is not displayed correctly, [click here]( to view an online version. Coronavirus testing clinic There have now been 16 deaths related to coronavirus. On Thursday, the Ministry of Health announced two more [deaths from Covid-19 - one each in Dunedin and Christchurch](. The [Dunedin woman was in her 60s]( and had underlying health conditions. The man in Christchurch was a resident of [Rosewood Rest Home]( in his 70s and also had underlying health conditions. Three new confirmed or probable cases were announced, and the total number of cases was 1451 at time of print. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said 1065 of those cases have now recovered from the virus. On Wednesday, a record number of tests were done - 6480 - bringing the total number of tests to 101,277. Earlier on Thursday, [the Government announced a $50m package]( aimed at the media industry, which has struggled as advertising revenue declined sharply during the coronavirus lockdown. It also announced the ban on hunting on private land would be lifted when the country enters level 3 next week. Ambulances at CHT St Margarets rest home Auckland rest home staff are reeling after a woman in her 70s who lived at their facility [died of Covid-19](. The Ministry of Health confirmed she died after being [taken to Waitākere Hospital]( from CHT St Margarets Rest Home and Hospital in Te Atatū on Friday. The woman had underlying health conditions, director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said, and died on Monday. Earlier, Waitematā District Health Board said about [20 residents of the rest home]( would be taken to Waitākere Hospital to help with staffing shortage issues. CHT chief executive Max Robins told Stuff it was a difficult time for staff at the home, several of whom had been stood down as a precautionary measure after close contact with confirmed cases. Robins said staff and residents confirmed as positive or probable cases were now part of a [larger cluster of at least 25](. "As with some other clusters around the country, this one includes people from both within CHT St Margarets and also in the community, all linked by transmission," Robins said in a statement to Checkpoint. Poppies painted on fence Kiwis are [encouraged to mark Anzac Day]( at home this year as [coronavirus keeps the country in lockdown](. Services are cancelled for the first time in 104 years, a decision that brought Returned and Services Association national president BJ Clark to tears. The RSA has called for New Zealanders to stand at their driveways, living rooms, balconies or work stations at 6am on April 25. The initiative will allow Kiwis to commemorate Anzac Day from the safety of their bubbles. Christchurch RSA president Jim Lilley said the tradition of remembering and commemorating our veterans and service personnel would not be stopped by coronavirus. As lockdown restrictions remain in place, Auckland Museum has set up an online space where Kiwis can place a virtual poppy to continue the longstanding tradition. Auckland Council is calling on families to make a poppy for the teddy bears in their windows to wear. RNZ will broadcast a dawn service at 6am Saturday and the museum and Harbour Bridge will light up red. Enjoying this email? [Check out Stuff's other daily and weekly newsletters](. Papatoetoe resident Mahenaz Begum Local residents have [described terrifying scenes]( as a man wielding a machete smashed windows [before he was shot dead](. Hitesh Lal died on Monday morning in Papatoetoe when police shot him after he went on a rampage. "It was crazy," said Mahenaz Begum from outside her home on Central Ave, where some windows on neighbouring houses were boarded up. She said when one local resident yelled out "what the hell are you doing?", Lal demanded to enter that property and told people: "I will decide. I will kill you or I will [let you] live." Begum and a relative said police appealed to Lal to put the machete down and talk or negotiate, but he instead advanced, first at a police dog and then at an officer. Begum said she was still scared after witnessing the incident in the quiet street. Auckland Peace Action and some commentators on social media have condemned the police shooting. On Monday, Lal's cousin Rajiv Prasad told Stuff [arguments over land and money in Fiji had troubled Lal](. Counties Manukau police Superintendent Jill Rogers said police launched investigations into the shooting, had notified the Independent Police Conduct Authority, and Lal's death had been referred to the Coroner. Eloi Jean Rolland A t-shirt has been [found in bushland]( in the search for [missing French teenager Eloi Jean Rolland](. The 18-year-old exchange student was last seen on March 7 and [mobile phone data]( indicated he was in the vicinity of Piha Rd at 9.18am. Police found and recovered a t-shirt in a bush area in Karekare last week, Sergeant Callum McNeill said. "It is being forensically tested and police are keeping an open mind as to whether it may be linked to the search for Eloi Rolland." Search and rescue staff have since returned to the area to look for other items of interest. Karekare resident Dean Thompson discovered the t-shirt while assisting his neighbour with bait lines. Thompson didn't think much of it at the time, however, he knew about Rolland's disappearance as he had [witnessed search and rescue teams]( in the area a few weeks earlier. Days later and feeling uneasy about the discovery, he returned to the shirt and took photos for police. He said the shirt was a European brand and around the right size for Rolland's description. Sergeant McNeill previously told Stuff police were keeping an open mind, but admitted as each day passes, the chances of finding the teen alive and well "are sadly becoming more slim". Albino Lucifer's dogfish A search through previously unstudied specimens at Auckland Museum has revealed the [existence of an "extremely rare" albino shark](. A recent research paper published in the Journal of Fish Biology by Dr. Brittany Finucci, a fisheries scientist at NIWA, describes the find as an albino Lucifer's dogfish. In 2018, Finucci visited the museum to help identify and organise specimens in the deepwater shark collection. As she worked through the hundreds of specimens, she spotted the strange-looking shark. While albinism has been well documented in humans and a wide range of animals, there have only been a handful of deep sea sharks recorded as albino, Finucci explained. "After looking through some literature, I couldn't find anything that reported albinism in the lantern shark family, Etmopteridae, so it was a new record. We can't say for certain how many sharks are albino because the deep sea is so understudied, but it is a rare occurrence." The museum's albino shark was caught in 1984 by a research vessel in the Wairarapa.It was sent to the museum where it has remained unstudied for 36 years. Finucci said she believed a general lack of research into deepwater may be why the shark had never been studied. You've received this email because you have opted in to receive Auckland news updates from Stuff Did a friend forward this to you? [Sign up to get Auckland News: In case you missed it]( to your inbox [Unsubscribe]( [Newsletter Settings]( [Privacy Policy]( [Advertise]( [Feedback](