Tag: Auckland
Auckland hospitals put most care on hold, incentives fail to fix...
RNZ News
An Auckland nurse says a lucrative incentive payment has not fixed the city's dire hospital staffing shortage in Aotearoa New Zealand's current covid-19...
Covid-19 cases in Auckland on way down, ‘full on outbreak’ in...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says it is clear that the number of cases in Auckland is on the way...
NZ’s covid-19 death toll reaches 105, but it ‘could have been...
RNZ News
The number of people with covid-19 who have died in New Zealand has now reached 105, with 14 deaths reported in the past...
‘Remain vigilant’ warning from Auckland health leaders as record 7 covid...
RNZ News
Auckland health authorities remain cautiously optimistic that the omicron outbreak may have peaked in the country's biggest city, even though 601 of the...
Kaitiaki block ‘particularly dangerous’ anti-vax protesters at Auckland border
By Sam Olley, RNZ News reporter
Ngāti Whātua kaitiaki remain in bolstered numbers at the border between Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Tai Tokerau to stop...
Effective NZ vaccination campaigns ‘must include’ Māori, Pacific leaders
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ health correspondent
The calls for New Zealanders to get vaccinated are becoming more urgent by the day as covid-19 embeds itself...
2000 break NZ lockdown rules to protest covid restrictions
RNZ News
About 2000 people have turned up to a New Zealand anti-lockdown protest in Auckland's domain arranged by Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki.
Those attending...
Auckland mayor Goff makes ‘roll up your sleeves – take covid...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff has appealed to the 1.7 million people in the city to "roll up your sleeves" and get...
NZ Corrections found attacker ‘increasingly hostile and abusive’
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News reporter
New Zealand's Department of Corrections has revealed more details about the LynnMall terrorist's violent behaviour while he was remanded...
Auckland terrorist’s name suppression revoked, but remains secret for now
By Sarah Robson, RNZ News Reporter
Name suppression for the man responsible for yesterday's New Zealand terror attack at a west Auckland supermarket has been...
Cook Islands suspends travel bubble with New Zealand – 5 delta...
Cook Islands News
Cook Islands has suspended the travel bubble with New Zealand after NZ officials reported new covid-19 community cases in Auckland.
Four new community...
NZ farmers in tractor protest against environmental ‘ute tax’ rules
RNZ News
Groundswell NZ organised the "Howl of a Protest" in more than 40 towns and cities across New Zealand over recent environmental regulations, the...
Auckland’s ‘most liveable’ city loses some gloss with Pacific criticism
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Days after being condemned by the largest Pacific Island capital -- Port Moresby, the Economist's Global Liveability Index has been criticised...
Auckland is the world’s ‘most liveable city’? Many Māori might disagree
ANALYSIS: By Ella Henry, Auckland University of Technology
While I am always happy to celebrate any accolades my country and city might garner on the...
NZ covid: Not following rules ‘puts all of us at risk’,...
By RNZ News
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff wants tougher measures against people ignoring New Zealand's covid-19 health guidance.
He said it was frustrating to learn one...
NZ covid minister Hipkins announces no lockdown over community case
By RNZ News
Minister of Covid-19 Response Chris Hipkins says he is hopeful a lockdown can be avoided in New Zealand's largest city after a...
Gallery: The virus shackles are off … but where was the...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch hops on a bus from Onehunga to Auckland to check out day one of New...
Doctors’ union wants answers over seven nurses infected at NZ hospital
By Katie Scotcher, reporter for RNZ News
A New Zealand doctors' union fears the Waitematā District Health Board is covering up mistakes that led to...