Tag: Coronavirus
Leaked memo raises questions over NZ Health Ministry’s daily covid-19 cases
By Stephen Forbes, Local Democracy reporter
A leading epidemiologist says Aotearoa New Zealand has no idea how many community cases of covid-19 there are in...
NZ’s Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield to step down from role
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield -- the man who has tirelessly steered the country's covid-19 pandemic response for the...
New Zealand to remain at red covid-19 traffic light setting amid...
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand will remain at the red covid-19 traffic light setting, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Ardern made the announcement at today's post-cabinet...
First female premier of a Solomons province pleads for NZ covid...
RNZ Pacific
The first female premier of a Solomon Islands province is appealing to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to help her country manage...
Yap doctors, nurses resign en masse – governor declares emergency
By Joyce McClure of Pacific Island Times
Yap State Governor Jesse Salalu has declared a state of emergency over a mass resignation of 40 doctors...
Māori dying with covid-19 because of misinformation, says health leader
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist
A Māori health leader says a new international misinformation study confirms the alarm many were desperately trying to...
AUT’s Pacific vice-chancellor targets ‘digital divide inequality’ in education
RNZ News
Auckland University of Technology's new vice-chancellor -- the country's first Pasifika educator in the top role at a university -- is determined to...
NZ covid-19 update: 17 new deaths, 13,475 cases, 764 people in...
RNZ News
New Zealand's number of people in hospital with covid-19 continues to fall, but there have still been 13,475 new cases in the community...
One third of NZ covid cases in children and teens, says...
RNZ News
One third of all current cases in Aotearoa New Zealand are in children and teenagers, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield revealed at...
Nick Rockel: Memories of the two-year covid safety struggle –...
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel, a reflection as Aotearoa New Zealand yesterday experienced its worst day since the covid-19 pandemic began.
It came up in...
NZ public health chief encouraged in spite of 34 covid deaths...
In spite of a record 34 covid-related deaths being reported in New Zealand today, Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay says it is...
Covid trends around the Pacific – deaths, lockdown and easing rules
RNZ Pacific
A snapshot of how the covid-19 pandemic is impacting on Pacific nations and territories today:
Second Covid-19 death in American Samoa
American Samoa has recorded...
Hundreds more may die in NZ’s first omicron wave, covid modeller...
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist
A covid-19 modeller says hundreds more people could die in Aotearoa New Zealand's first wave of the omicron...
Covid-19 modeller says NZ’s omicron death rate ‘comparable’ to other countries
RNZ News
A covid-19 modeller is hopeful omicron hospitalisations have peaked and says at this stage New Zealand's death rate is at a comparable level...
NZ’s omicron outbreak: PM Ardern heralds changes to traffic light strategy
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed cabinet's decisions about when and how covid-19 restrictions will be eased.
She said the traffic light...
Samoa extends lockdown as spread of covid-19 cases jumps to 467
RNZ Pacific
The Samoa government has extended its alert level three lockdown for another two weeks, due to the rapid spread of the covid-19 in...
NZ’s covid-19 case numbers past their peak in Auckland, says Bloomfield
RNZ News
New Zealand's Director-General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, says covid-19 case numbers have passed their peak in Auckland, the country's largest city, but...
Samoa’s covid positive cases surge tops 196, report health officials
By Alexander Rheeney in Apia
Samoa’s total number of active covid-19 cases has increased to 196 with the government confirming 192 cases in Upolu and...
Covid diagnosis: Could I have had the virus and not realised?
ANALYSIS: By Ashwin Swaminathan, Australian National University
It seems not a day goes by without learning someone in our inner circle of family, friends and...
‘Warmest welcome you can imagine’ – Ardern opens NZ doors to...
By Tess Brunton, RNZ News tourism reporter
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has gone on a marketing blitz to reel Australians to Aotearoa New Zealand's shores.
It...
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...
NZ reports 24 more covid deaths, 19,542 new cases – minister...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has reported 19,542 new cases of covid-19 in the community and 24 more deaths today.
The ministry said eight...