Tag: NZ covid outbreak

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...

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...

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...

RNZ News The clamour in New Zealand to ditch vaccine passes and change the traffic light setting is poorly timed, an epidemiologist says. The number of...

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...

RNZ News New Zealand police have moved to start clearing up the roads near Parliament in the capital Wellington, where protesters have clogged the roads...

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 The one million New Zealanders who are so far delaying getting their booster shots are the biggest concern of top covid-19 adviser Sir...

RNZ News "Go home and take your children" -- that was New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's plea to protesters remaining at Parliament today. Despite being...

RNZ News New Zealand police are braced as more protesters began arriving as the demonstration at Parliament in the capital Wellington entered the fourth day. Tensions...

RNZ News Twenty five new cases of covid-19 have been reported in the New Zealand community today, including 10 confirmed omicron cases. In a statement, the...

RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that the whole of New Zealand will move into the red light covid-19 setting at midnight tonight...

By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is warning New Zealand's covid-19 case numbers in 2022 will be unlike anything seen...

By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor The Cook Islands has reopened its borders to fully vaccinated New Zealanders, but with less fanfare and...

By Jean Bell, RNZ News journalist New Zealand covid-19 experts are nervously observing an ever-increasing number of cases at the border, as the threat of...

RNZ News As some North Island regions moved to the orange traffic light setting at 11.59pm last night, New Zealand has now found two omicron...

RNZ News New Zealand's Māori vaccination rate continues to tick up, with several district health boards (DHBs) now past 90 percent for first doses. But experts...

RNZ News More moves to tighten the New Zealand's borders may be needed on top of the decision to delay the start of the self-isolation...

RNZ News New Zealand has reached a milestone of eight million vaccine doses administered. The milestone was featured in the Ministry of Health's covid-19 update today. The...

By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter New Zealand's longest covid-19 hospitalisation in Auckland and Northland during the first three months of the current outbreak was...

RNZ News Aucklanders are travelling out of New Zealand's largest city today as the border around Tāmaki Makaurau opens for the first time in 120...