Rowan Quinn

Aucklanders are being warned not to be caught napping again when it comes to Covid-19.

The city is preparing to join the rest of the country in Alert level 1 from Thursday.

But some experts are… Audio

Hundreds of women with endometriosis say they've been sidelined and left in pain and distress by covid 19 delays. The condition causes uterine tissue to grow in other parts of the abdomen and can… Audio

Contact tracing failed and the vaccination programme was too slow to stop last year's measles epidemic ripping through South Auckland, a new review has found.

More than 2,000 people caught the… Audio

A review into last years measles epidemic has found Auckland health authorities lost the ability to trace contacts early in the outbreak and vaccinations ran out.

Te Aniwa Hurihanganui spoke with… Audio

New figures show that just a week ago the country was still falling short of contact tracing targets - ten days into the current Covid-19 outbreak.

The government's released new data as well as a… Audio

Exhausted lab workers working long hours on Covid-19 testing are warning safety could be compromised if the huge demand continues.

Auckland laboratories have been smashing their previous daily… Audio

A woman tested at an Auckland pop-up clinic had to queue in a tent with other symptomatic people - with little social distancing and hardly anyone wearing a mask.

Auckland hit a record number of… Audio

Covid-19 could been have spreading in Auckland for weeks, with dozens of people already infected.

Infectious disease experts say it's likely the four cases confirmed in a family on Tuesday are a few… Audio

Nine checkpoints are now in force around the Auckland supercity boundaries.

Travel in and out of the city is restricted to essential travel and freight movements. 

RNZ's health correspondent… Audio

In Australia, a New Zealand doctor is dealing with as many as a hundred covid cases a day at the epicentre of the massive Melbourne outbreak. Former Wellingtonian Megan Robb is the director of… Audio

Doctors are pleading with the Ministry of Health not to further delay a cervical cancer self-screening test they say will save lives. The test for the virus which causes the cancer, is much less… Audio

Auckland's public health service tried to get out of having to meet big new Covid-19 contact tracing requirements, saying it thought they were unnecessary.

Like all public health units, it was asked… Audio

A plan to find and vaccinate hundreds of thousands of young New Zealanders who may not have measles immunity is due to be laid out by the government today.

Doctors say if they had acted earlier the… Audio

Doctors say there were fewer babies born prematurely in New Zealand's lockdown - following a trend also seen overseas.

They say understanding what's behind the change could help save some babies from… Audio

More than 135,000 Auckland children are overdue a dental check-up. Covid 19 restrictions have made long standing waiting lists in the city worse. Auckland woman, Ellie, has seen first hand how the… Audio