Only three victims of the Whakaari/White Island volcano remain in hospital in New Zealand.
Flowers and messages at the cordon for the Whakaari/White Island eruption late last year. Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas
The Ministry of Health said all three were in Middlemore Hospital and one of them was still in a critical condition.
Twenty-one people died in or after the 9 December eruption.
Thirteen injured patients were later transferred to Australia and another six to their home countries.
New details of the Whakaari/White Island recovery mission shed light on the planning and bravery of the special forces team who searched the island just days after its eruption.
The public tab for last year's deadly eruption at Whakaari/White Island continues to grow, with Counties Health revealing its response has cost more than $2 million and counting.
Helicopter pilot Tom Storey, who was among the first to respond to the Whakaari / White Island disaster, wants to know if the people he helped rescue have survived.
Bubbling vents off Whakaari White Island are giving scientists a natural ocean lab to study the impacts of future climate change.
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