Tag: Covid deaths
WHO covid-19 status changed but still NZ’s infectious ‘number one killer’
RNZ News
The World Health Organisation's decision to remove covid-19 as a global health emergency is the right move, epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says.
The organisation...
As covid cases drop, Marshall Islands praised for ‘unprecedented’ response
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro
United States-based medical doctors have praised the Marshall Islands for...
Marshall Islands covid spread demonstrates super variant
By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro
The Marshall Islands is a live demonstration that the omicron BA.5 variant...
Covid and reality: Do we care enough about the common good?
ANALYSIS: By Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University
The covid-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the...
Sick and tired of the sickness – some media try to...
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
Covid has now killed around 1700 people in New Zealand, but much of our news reporting and commentary has focused on...
‘We’ve politicised this issue too much’ – NZ expert calls for...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
A prominent New Zealand epidemiologist is calling for much wider mask mandates, saying the roll-out of free...
NZ covid deaths top 1000 with 9570 new community cases reported
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand has reported 9570 new community cases of covid-19 and a further 32 deaths today, bringing total publicly recorded deaths with...
Covid-19 update: 28 further deaths in NZ after cases top 1...
RNZ News
New Zealand reported 7970 new cases of covid-19 in the community and 28 further deaths today, a day after cases in the country...
Covid-19 in Pacific: Cook Islands reports first pandemic death
RNZ Pacific
Cook Islands has reported the country's first covid-19 pandemic death.
The 63-year-old woman died on the way to hospital on the island of Aitutaki,...
Rod Jackson: Why New Zealand’s response to the covid pandemic was...
COMMENTARY: By Professor Rod Jackson
In a recent article (Weekend Herald, April 16) John Roughan wrote that the covid-19 pandemic has been an anticlimax in...
‘You feel a little bit less cautious’ – families adjusting to...
By Soumya Bhamidipati, RNZ News journalist
The orange light pandemic setting in Aotearoa New Zealand has brought a sense of relief for parents, as the...
Eleven more covid deaths reported as Air NZ flooded with travel...
RNZ News
Eleven 11 more people have died from covid-19, and 6242 more community cases have been detected, New Zealand health authorities say.
The Ministry of...
‘It was clear sharing information was key,’ says resigned NZ public...
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand's outgoing Director of Public Health says the quick sharing of scientific information and the widespread use of masks have both...
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...
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...
Covid-19 in the Pacific – Nauru reports first two cases in...
RNZ Pacific
A roundup today of the covid-19 pandemic status around the Pacific.
Nauru
President Lionel Aingimea has announced that Nauru has recorded its first two covid-19...
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...
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...