Covid-19: 97 new community cases, seven people in hospital with virus

Can't view this email, [click here]( 30 January 2022 Hi {NAME}, Catch up on today's latest news in your daily briefing. Top Headlines [Large Article Image]( [Covid-19: 97 new community cases, seven people in hospital with virus]( The update comes after 105 new community cases were announced on Friday. [Share article on Facebook]( [Share article on Twitter]( [Large Article Image]( [Covid-19: Locations of interest in the Omicron and Delta outbreaks – January 29]( Earlier, all Soundsplash attendees were asked to get tested as the festival was a location of interest linked to the Covid-19 community outbreak. [Share article on Facebook]( [Share article on Twitter]( [Small Article Image]( [Covid-19: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in self-isolation, identified as close contact of Covid case]( Jacinda Ardern is self isolating after taking a flight from Kerikeri to Auckland which had a Covid-19 case onboard. 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[Share article on Facebook]( [Share article on Twitter]( National news [Small Article Image]( [Covid-19: Two Christchurch community cases confirmed as Omicron variant]( Two of the four Covid-19 community cases reported in Canterbury earlier this week have now been determined to be the Omicron variant. [Share article on Facebook]( [Share article on Twitter]( [Small Article Image]( [Fleeing driver injures three in serious early-morning crash in central Christchurch]( The sister of a woman injured after being hit by a driver fleeing police in a reportedly stolen car in central Christchurch overnight believes a seatbelt saved her sister’s life. [Share article on Facebook]( [Share article on Twitter]( [Small Article Image]( [Quiz: Afternoon trivia challenge: January 29, 2022]( The Matterhorn is part of which mountain range? 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[Share article on Facebook]( [Share article on Twitter]( World [Small Article Image]( [‘It doesn’t matter who you are, they’re the rules’: Australian PM's vaccine warning to Kanye West]( After the Novak Djokovic vaccination fiasco, Scott Morrison has a blunt message for the rapper ahead of his concert tour of Australia. [Share article on Facebook]( [Share article on Twitter]( [Small Article Image]( [US bridge collapses, drops city bus into Pittsburgh ravine]( A 50-year-old bridge breaks requiring rescuers to rappel down a ravine and form a human chain to reach people in a bus that plummeted along with the structure. [Share article on Facebook]( [Share article on Twitter]( [Small Article Image]( ['He answers to no one': Russian President Vladimir Putin operating from 'bunker']( A former British ambassador to Russia says few Kremlin advisers would contradict the Russian President if he decided to invade Ukraine. 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