Tag: Covid cases

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...

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...

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...

By Moana Ellis of Local Democracy Reporting A Whanganui iwi leader says the Aotearoa New Zealand government's decision to ease covid-19 measures at this time is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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 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...

RNZ News Hospitals across New Zealand are receiving anti-covid-19 mandate protesters returning from Parliament, and are pleading with those experiencing cold and flu symptoms to...

By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education correspondent Education Minister Chris Hipkins has warned that nearly every New Zealand school and early childhood centre will have...