Covid 19

In its last meeting before dissolution, a Lakes District Health Board member has taken a final swing at the government over MIQ, saying it was "imposed" on the city.

The Ministry of Health failed to properly estimate the Covid-19 PCR testing capacity of the country's laboratories before they were swamped by the surge of Omicron cases, an external review has found.

Celebrated for its bacon butties initiative, the Taranaki District Health Board has reached back into its culinary bag of tricks to help boost vaccinations rates.

Staff illness is adding pressure to the healthcare sector and with tomorrow being the official start of winter and seasonal illnesses expected to spread, experts say it will only get worse. Audio

There have been 18 more deaths of people with Covid-19 and 8436 new cases identified in the community, the Ministry of Health has reported.

Figures obtained under the official information act show the government spent $9.1 million sending international returnees to MIQ facilities around the country between December last year and February…

There have been nine more deaths of people with Covid-19, and 4841 more community cases of the virus detected, the Ministry of Health says.

Some primary school principals want a return to compulsory face mask-wearing as they head into the colder months.

Two sub-variants of the Omicron Covid strain, BA.1 and BA.2, are circulating in Vanuatu, the country's health minister Bruno Leingkone says.

Two passengers on a flight between Fiji and Samoa last Saturday tested positive to Covid-19 on arrival at Faleolo Airport.

"Tangata whenua had to defend themselves in the first lockdown, we put up borders, we set up systems within the iwi and within the rural areas to be able to cope whilst waiting for a vaccine. So no…

Another 11 Covid-19 cases have been recorded in French Polynesia in the last 72-hour reporting period.

Samoa's overnight curfew will ease, schools will begin opening this week and some travel can resume under changes to Covid emergency restrictions.

Australia has become a world leader in a very unwanted way - the amount of people to be infected with Covid-19 per-capita.

An employer's association wants the seven day isolation period for household contacts of Covid-19 cases to be scrapped.

Schools say Covid-19 case numbers will influence their approach to wearing face masks this term.

Opinion - The government must be held accountable to ensure it addresses its inadequate Covid-19 response to the disability community, writes Chris Ford.

Fourteen more people have died with Covid-19 and there are a further 8242 new community cases, the Ministry of Health says.

Thirteen more people have died with Covid-19 and there have been 9047 new community cases reported, the Ministry of Health says.