Tag: covid-19

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...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent The covid-19 vaccine booster needs a rebrand in New Zealand because it sounds like it is an "optional...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter Police will not give details about finances and their investigation into the New Zealand protest against covid-19...

RNZ News It is too early to say New Zealand has peaked, and declining tallies are no reason to celebrate as covid-19 is still rife...

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...

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...

RNZ News New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Royal NZ College of General Practitioners president Dr Samantha Murton gave a briefing today...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila Vanuatu's Ministry of Health (MOH) has yet to inform the public on when, where and how the first person...

RNZ News The United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its travel advisory warning on travel to New Zealand. The CDC updated its...

RNZ News Twenty-eight of the anti-public health protesters who occupied New Zealand's Parliament grounds over the past month have now tested positive for covid-19. In a...

RNZ News National Party leader Christopher Luxon is the latest in a string of members of Parliament reported to have tested positive to covid-19 as...

ANALYSIS: By Andrew Vonasch, University of Canterbury and Michael-John Turp, University of Canterbury Like the many similar movements against vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions...

RNZ News Small groups of anti-mandate protesters are still lingering around Wellington after being cleared out of New Zealand's Parliament precinct on Wednesday The disparate collection...

By Sharon Brettkelly, co-host of RNZ's The Detail After 23 days, the occupation at Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament was finally brought to a chaotic and...

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist All political parties have supported a motion in Parliament to recognise the "safe restoration of Parliament's grounds"...

RNZ News Police are out in force in New Zealand's capital Wellington after yesterday's massive operation to clear the illegal anti-covid public health measures occupation...

RNZ News The area around New Zealand's Parliament has today been the scene of a full-day ordeal of violence as police removed protesters whose behaviour...

RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she is saddened and angered by protesters' actions today, and that the New Zealand Parliament's grounds have been...

RNZ News Police have made 60 arrests today as part of a pre-planned operation to remove anti-covid public health protesters from New Zealand's Parliament grounds. Police...

RNZ News Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the national health system relies on New Zealanders' continued cooperation as almost 20,000 cases are announced...

RNZ News Epidemiologist Sir David Skegg, who along with his team has been providing advice to the New Zealand government on the covid-19 response, says...

RNZ News A public health expert says New Zealand's covid-19 response is still one of the best in the world, two years after the first...