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A leading biostatician is calling for more research into how contact sport can lead to dementia later in life. It comes after former footballer Sir Bobby Charlton became the fifth member of England's… Audio

Technology commentator Paul Brislen speaks to The Panel about how the trial will work. Audio

People in a Rotorua suburb can apply to take part in a make-or-break trial of a Covid-19 contact tracing card from Friday.

Health officials still can't say if the tracing tool will cope with real… Audio

Last night Auckland Regional Public Health confirmed a positive Covid-19 person visited the Malt Bar in Greenhithe last Friday night. Now health authorities are saying anyone who was at the Malt bar… Audio

Mobile phones are a key way of families staying in contact across far-flung remote provinces in Papua New Guinea. Audio

Officials have identified 35 close contacts of the three community covid-19 cases who travelled to Taupo.

Eight have returned negative test results, while the rest have been or are in the process of… Audio

Health workers are scrambling to respond to three new cases of Covid-19 in the community, with 31 close contacts also involved.

Two of the family of three left managed isolation in Christchurch and… Audio

A review into last years measles epidemic has found Auckland health authorities lost the ability to trace contacts early in the outbreak and vaccinations ran out.

Te Aniwa Hurihanganui spoke with… Audio

Ministry of Health figures show it's still taking too long for the contacts of people with Covid-19 to get into isolation.

The Ministry is not reaching its target of having 80 percent of contacts in… Audio

Health authorities will today confirm if anyone who attended gym classes with a health worker who has tested positive for Covid-19.

The authorities have urged almost ninety close contacts who… Audio

It's been confirmed the person who attended three gym classes in Auckland before testing positive for Covid-19 is a healthcare worker at the country's only quarantine hotel.

It's likely the worker… Audio

Pacific health leaders are warning that bringing police in to help with Covid-19 contact tracing is a bad look and there are better ways to bolster expertise.

The police are providing advice to the… Audio

Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles says its not surprising people sceptical of Covid-19 have become caught up in a cluster in NZ.

The Health Minister Chris Hipkins has asked for police help to ensure the… Audio

Health Minister Chris Hipkins says it has become apparent some close contacts of the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship church sub-cluster were not previously disclosed.

A student at St Dominic's… Audio

It is back to basics with the government's latest Covid-19 tracking tool - a paper pamphlet to be used by anyone who does not have a smartphone.

More than two million people have downloaded the NZ… Video, Audio

We're hearing a lot about contact tracing at the moment. The Roche report into New Zealand's contact tracing scheme has just been released to the public and it contains good news and bad. New… Audio

The long-awaited report into whether our contact tracing is fit for purpose has found strategic and structural planning work lacking, with an urgent need for scenario planning and stress-testing. Audio

New figures show that just a week ago the country was still falling short of contact tracing targets - ten days into the current Covid-19 outbreak.

The government's released new data as well as a… Audio

Film and TV reviewer Chris Schulz joins Kathryn to talk about Dispatches from Elsewhere, created by and starring Jason Segel, the interesting true story behind John was Trying to Contact Aliens and… Audio

New research shows manual contact tracing must remain the backbone of any such system. That's despite digital methods being faster and more effective at identifying close contacts. Senior researcher… Audio

National Party leader Judith Collins has blasted the government over a lack of testing of front-line border workers.

"This is a massive failure for the government, now we've got a lockdown," she told… Audio

The government has backtracked on plans to urgently test every single person who had come into the Ports of Auckland for Covid-19.

Last week the Ministry of Health issued a mandatory testing order… Video, Audio

A new blue tooth powered "CovidCard" for contact tracing is set to be trialed in Rotorua. The credit card-sized device would be worn around the neck when in areas such as public transport, workplaces… Audio

Auckland's public health service tried to get out of having to meet big new Covid-19 contact tracing requirements, saying it thought they were unnecessary.

Like all public health units, it was asked… Audio

The government has identified 170 close contacts of a person who tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving in South Korea from New Zealand.

The South Korean government believes the person most… Audio