Tag: Covid cases

RNZ News The two-week old protest at New Zealand's Parliament has been added to the Ministry of Health's covid-19 locations of interest website as new...

RNZ News Epidemiologist Professor Rod Jackson is urging New Zealanders to take omicron seriously, and certainly not to think of it as similar to the...

RNZ News One of the people funding New Zealand's two-week-old Parliament grounds occupation says it makes no sense to maintain a quarantine system at the...

RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the omicron outbreak is likely to peak in Aotearoa New Zealand in three to six weeks. At that point,...

RNZ News Some residents of the area around New Zealand's Parliament in the capital Wellington are worried about leaving their houses with protesters outside, while...

RNZ News Almost 30 community leaders of New Zealand's capital Wellington have banded together to urge an immediate end of the illegal protest activities at...

RNZ News Police have pulled back on their plans to begin towing vehicles illegally parked around the anti-vaccine, anti-mandate protest on Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament...

By Susan Botting, Local Democracy Reporting journalist A Kaipara district councillor's almost week-long participation in New Zealand's anti-covid-19 mandate protest at Parliament is jeopardising the...

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist Pasifika people are making up about half of the cases in the current outbreak of the omicron variant in...

RNZ News New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson has warned that although people have a right to protest when "they threaten, harass and disrupt...

RNZ News Police say misinformation and a "range of different causes and motivations" are making it difficult to resolve the situation with protesters at New...

RNZ News Police handcuffed three people after protesters today tried to push through a barrier on the grounds of New Zealand's Parliament -- known as...

RNZ Pacific Several hundred more cases of covid in Solomon Islands ... Kiribati records first covid death ...nearly 12,000 in isolation in New Caledonia ......

By Kim Moodie, RNZ News reporter A public health expert is urging New Zealanders to keep up the testing momentum, as testing rates take a...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's covid-19 outbreak continues to spread with almost 10,000 active cases. This includes 1289 new infections detected over the preceding 24 hours. Twenty five...

RNZ News New Zealand has recorded its highest number of community cases in one day, with 243 new cases reported today. The previous highest number of...

ANALYSIS: By Peter Davis With the arrival of the omicron variant on our shores, it is hard to believe, judging by the media coverage --...

RNZ News New Zealanders in Australia will be able to return home by the end of the month under a five-stage reopening plan announced by...

By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists Three new covid-19 cases have been confirmed in the kingdom of Tonga bringing the total number...

RNZ Pacific Three more children have died from covid-19 in Fiji, taking the death toll since the pandemic hit the country in 2020 to 791. The...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific regional correspondent The Kiribati Health Ministry has confirmed that the atoll island nation has surpassed 100 covid-19 cases after it...

By Jane Patterson, RNZ News political editor New Zealand could be facing 50,000 daily omicron infections by Waitangi weekend, according to modelling by US-based health...