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Earlier this week the Director General of Health said nearly 80 percent of sequenced Covid-19 cases are BA.2. What impact will it have on the current outbreak and will a new vaccine be necessary?

Schools and early childhood centres hope hundreds of thousands of rapid antigen tests (RATs) will keep attendance up and put staff and students at ease.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced New Zealand's borders will be open to vaccinated Australians from 11.59 pm on 12 April.

Schools, kura and early learning centres will soon be able to opt-in to receive rapid antigen tests, the government has announced.

Australian researchers have developed a tool that more than halves the average age of an autism diagnosis in children.

Hawke's Bay Hospital has had to scale back some of its services and operations, as the number of Covid patients in the hospital grows. Audio

Country Life: The Mobile Health service's "operating theatre on wheels" is picking up many more cancer cases than in the past, says chief executive Mark Eager. Audio

Mobile Health's surgical bus can no longer offer some operations in rural New Zeland because of the increased demand for cancer surviellance.

Active Covid-19 case numbers could be as high as half a million, or one in 10 New Zealanders, with many unreported positive results and others asymptomatic, according to modelling.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says the health system needs New Zealanders' continued cooperation as almost 20,000 cases are announced today.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says from 11.59pm on 2 March vaccinated travellers will no longer need to self-isolate. Audio

Education Minister Chris Hipkins has warned that nearly every school and early childhood centre will have contact with Covid-19 in the next few weeks.

A coronial court heard from the Human Rights Commission and the terrorist's lawyer, in the final day of a scope hearing on the Christchurch terror attacks yesterday.

Testing laboratories say they have been inundated with demand for Covid-19 PCR tests much faster than expected, and there's a major backlog in Auckland. Audio

The government is being urged to remove any impediments facing Long Covid sufferers seeking financial support after Air New Zealand declined injury cover to a sufferer it made redundant.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced all Covid restrictions will end in England this week and free mass testing will stop from 1 April.

An organisation for laboratory workers says they are burnt out from operating under poor conditions for the past two years, during the pandemic.