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Four people with Covid-19 in New Zealand are being ventilated, but the number of people in hospital with the coronavirus has dropped. Follow all the latest developments with RNZ's live blog.

Essential workers and a top Covid-19 expert are among a growing group calling for rapid tests to help New Zealand get ahead of the Delta variant spread. Audio

Cases from the Delta outbreak rose to 277 total, but vaccination doses also hit 3 million. Here's the big developments from day 9 of Level 4.

Latest modelling shows that the current Delta variant has spread much faster than last August's outbreak, when around 90 people had been infected before it was detected.

Aucklanders are supportive of the prospect of a longer lockdown as new cases continue to erupt.

New Zealand's Covid-19 quarantine hotels are under increasing pressure with more than 200 infected with the virus and predictions the number could hit 1000.

Experts predict the entire country will remain at alert level 4 until health officials can rule out community transmission beyond Auckland's borders.

New modelling shows the number of people infected in the community might reach 120 - as large as initially feared, Covid-19 modeller Professor Shaun Hendy says.

Professor Shaun Hendy says the number of people infected in the community at the time the outbreak was first detected may now be "several dozen".

Professor Shaun Hendy says he is reasonably confident that New Zealand's strict level 4 lockdown will be able to control an outbreak of the Delta variant but warns that Auckland is likely to be in… Audio

A leading Māori doctor is calling for the vaccination of children against Covid-19 to get underway, and is hopeful kids as young as five could get their vaccines by the end of the year.

A Covid-19 modeller would like vaccination rates "into the high 90s" by March when the border is potentially partially opened, but acknowledges that may not be realistic. Audio

As Australia grapples with the highly infectious Delta variant, experts say it is unlikely the trans-Tasman travel bubble will reopen.

Unless the whole community supports the Covid-19 response over coming months, we're going to end up like most other countries in the world, Sir David Skegg says. Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will next week set out whether and how the government plans to open the country's borders.

The University of Auckland and Royal Society are distancing themselves from a contentious letter by some top academics, dismissing mātauranga Māori.

Eighty-seven crew members and passengers have been placed into isolation on four inter-island ships in Fiji, health authorities said.