Covid 19

Progress is promising towards producing a vaccine against Covid-19, but whichever country comes up with the goods will have immense power - what lessons can we learn from the swine flu vaccination…

A High Court ruling concluded some of the government's early lockdown measures were unlawful, security at quarantine facilities is being boosted, and a different Covid-19 test is being used to…

Australians will have no choice in whether they have a coronavirus vaccination if Prime Minister Scott Morrison gets his wish.

Attorney-General David Parker says there's been no decision yet on a possible appeal to the high court ruling that some of the country's alert level 4 lockdown was unlawful. Video

A worker at an isolation facility who tested positive for Covid-19 didn't have any obvious contact with the woman who carried the same strain of Covid-19, authorities say. Video, Audio

A recent spike in cases has led to masks being required in more places for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Paris.

A man in his 30s is among 12 people who have died from coronavirus in Australia's state of Victoria in the past 24 hours as authorities recorded 466 new infections.

Mask manufacturers are receiving massive orders after the government says people will be encouraged to wear them if the country returns to alert level 2. Audio

Checkpoint - Health Minister Chris Hipkins talks about why we're being told to buy masks, and the Covid Card to be trailled in Rotorua. Audio

Victoria has reported another 10 deaths and cases in care facilities have past 500 at 38 centres, leaving authorities scrambling to halt the crisis.

"I've never been as ill as this and it's been really frightening", says Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Paul Garner, who's well qualified to talk about disease.

A NZ-born expert in lung damage who has designed a new and cheap emergency ventilator in response to the Covid-19 crisis says the "art" of mechanical ventilation has become incredibly sophisticated. Audio

New Zealand would have seen 990 to 4200 Covid-19 deaths if our losses matched OECD rates, but we're still tempting fate by not introducing masks, experts say. Audio

The coronavirus that is menacing the world right now is not the same as the coronavirus that first emerged in China.

Dentists are worried the delays could mean a lot more children might have serious dental problems by the time they are seen.

Defendants awating trial by jury are facing months of delays as courts grapple with backlogs caused by Covid-19.

The government has apologised to those at the centre of a major privacy breach as it moves to track down whoever is responsible.

The Australian state of Victoria has recorded another 74 coronavirus cases overnight and has frozen rent payments for some public housing tenants.