Covid 19

Consumer confidence remains low, with palpable nervousness about long term prospects pushing it back down to the levels of a year ago.

New South Wales Health has confirmed a hotel quarantine worker has tested positive for coronavirus.

Government publicity and communications about the latest Covid-19 outbreak will be reviewed by Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins, to see if they were effective.

The US Senate has voted to approve America's third major spending package to deal with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mediawatch looks at how the blame game played out in the media over the latest Covid cluster and the rulebreakers - while the previously-praised Covid communications strategy was called into question…

Lucinda Baulch became an MIQ martyr and a cause celebre for Covid sceptics when she refused a Covid test and was held for a second stint in MIQ. The media reported her reasons for refusal in detail…

The difficult recovery of a man's body, who died at sea while on a cargo vessel travelling to New Plymouth, has been described as "PPE on steroids".

From today, New Zealand businesses can apply for the government's latest Covid-19 support package.

Research from Israel shows getting just one Pfizer vaccine jab may curb the transmission of Covid-19, and getting both doses has led to a 94 percent drop in symptomatic coronavirus cases.

The first quarantine-free flight since the resumption of the one-way travel bubble with Australia takes off this evening.

MP calls for compassion while local councillor offers advice to workers.

There are two new possible cases of Covid-19, all close contacts of the Northland case have turned up negative, and community checkpoints will be set up. Audio

Two new positive Covid-19 results could be "weak positives", and they may not be infectious, says microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles. Audio

More locations of interest linked to a Covid-19 community case in Northland have been revealed as queues grow outside testing stations, and Australia suspends quarantine free travel in light of the…

Masks have been made mandatory on all Air New Zealand flights to and from New Zealand.

Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered as a victory, and with insistence the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.