Former Missouri House speaker sentenced to prison for COVID relief fraud - AP News

Former Missouri House speaker sentenced to prison for COVID relief fraud  AP News

New Zealand Covid response among world’s best but ‘scars’ remain, inquiry finds

Royal commission said the response led by Jacinda Ardern was broadly ‘appropriate’, in a wide-ranging report featuring recommendations for future pandemics A royal commission into New Zealand’s Covid response has found it was one of the best in the world but acknowledged the period had left “scars”. The second of two inquiry reports on the pandemic was released on Tuesday and focused on the period between February 2021 to October 2022, when the government changed from an elimination strategy ...

By Eva Corlett in Wellington

Former Missouri House speaker sentenced to prison for COVID relief fraud

Former Missouri House speaker sentenced to prison for COVID relief fraud

Former Missouri House speaker sentenced to prison for COVID relief fraud

Covid-19 response inquiry finds government's response effective but late, poorly communicated

The second phase of the Covid-19 response inquiry found that New Zealand's transition from its early elimination strategy to suppression and minimisation was "far from smooth".