Covid 19

A former Air NZ flight attendant who fell ill with Covid-19 while helping people get home between New Zealand and China during lockdown has achieved a milestone in his fight for compensation.

Explainer - With all these new Covid variants, how are the old tests holding up? And what's the point of testing now, anyway?

由于生活成本上升，越来越多的家庭缺少生活必需品；针对新菌株的Covid-19新冠疫苗下月上市。

专家表示，注射疫苗、戴口罩、使用快速抗原检测盒，尽可能避免人群聚集，是最好的防疫措施。

The new coalition government has decided to open an independent inquiry into the pandemic response but a legal expert warns it's not a good look.

The first authoritative NZ research reveals the heartbreaking impact of Long Covid on patients' lives, Newsroom's Marc Daalder reports.

She's taken her employer to court over what she claims is a failure to protect her during threats she received for her commentary on Covid-19 and vaccines.

A skewed sample is likely to have boosted New Zealand's scores in the most recent PISA tests of reading, maths and science.

A man has been jailed for more than two years and a woman has sentenced to seven months' home detention for defrauding taxpayers through the Covid-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme.

Levin residents who have heard from Winston Peters on the campaign trail are betting he will be back in the Beehive before long, and say they want to see him champion the issues others will not.

Covid infections are putting people at higher risk of diabetes, strokes, heart disease and other long-term illnesses - but experts warn it may be decades before the full impact is known.

Opinion - Interventions to decrease the rate of Covid infections are sensible, but not at any cost, a group of academics write. Here's what the science shows us about protection strategies.

A petition demanding the Ministry of Social Development claw back billions of dollars in Covid-19 wage subsidies has got more than 10,000 signatures.

Britain's government is refusing to hand over internal WhatsApp messages to a public inquiry into its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

School attendance improved dramatically in term one, weekly figures show.

The World Health Organisation's decision to remove Covid-19 as a global health emergency is the right move, epidemiologist Michael Baker says.

It is time to 'de-prioritise' the response to Covid 19, which will now be no worse than the flu for the majority of the population, an epidemiologist says. Audio

Tight reins on pay increases for thousands of public servants are expected to ease within days.

There has been much debate about the real number of Covid-19 deaths in China, after the virus ripped through its megacities.