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More than 1000 fake vaccination bookings have hampered efforts to get people jabbed in Tairāwhiti, the region with the lowest Covid-19 vaccination rates.

Some heart attack patients may be bumped from intensive care beds as medical staff rethink room for Covid-19 cases ahead of the virus reaching Gisborne.

Occupants of a car and a bus deliberately parked to obstruct traffic on SH1 only moved out of the way this afternoon after "lengthy engagement with police".

A group of scientists, photographers and students are behind a Nelson exhibition showing how rangitahi view climate change.

The first Covid-19 cases in the South Island in almost a year, children test positive in Northland, and data showing how many each DHB have yet to vaccinate.

Auckland and Capital & Coast DHBs are leading the charge in the race to get to 90 percent vaccinated. See how each DHB stacks up.

Spring, a blustery norwester and some of the largest sediment deposits in the world can make for some dusty days in and around Ruatoria, Alice Angeloni reports.

Māori health experts are worried about the lack of a specific vaccination target for Māori in the reopening plan announced today.

A total of 34 intensive care unit beds are available across the Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Lakes DHBs, home to more than 800,000 people.

A little more than half of the Māori population aged between 20 and 29 have had the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Covid-19 cases hit three digits for the first time with 102 today, but that might go up to 180 a day in the next few weeks as emergency nurses foresee a 'tsunami' of patients with the virus.

Suspected anti-vaxxers have been making bogus Covid-19 vaccination bookings in one of the least protected areas of Aotearoa.

An online community-led survey of about 400 Tairāwhiti residents between October 5 and 10 sought to better understand attitudes to the Covid-19 vaccination.

A Tairāwhiti community leader is defending a fundraising campaign for a vaccination van in the region after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said there was no need for it.

A Tairāwhiti trust which is thrilled the country sees the value of a vaccination van for the area and has put their money into crowdfunding it. Audio

Political parties put their differences aside at the weekend for Super Saturday but now the pressure is back on the government to keep that momentum going and move away from lockdowns. Audio

The official count for yesterday's Super Saturday Vaxathon was announced, while 51 new community cases were reported - including four in Waikato. Here's a summary of today's Covid-19 developments.

Donations are flooding in for a community mobile clinic to vaccinate the Tairawhiti region against Covid-19.