Tag: NZ lockdown

RNZ News After guiding New Zealand through two and a half years of a pandemic, Dr Ashley Bloomfield's time as Director-General of Health has come...

By Kaupapa Māori reporter Matai O'Connor of The Gisborne Herald Tairāwhiti tā moko artists Maia Gibbs and Henare Brooking designed the jersey the Warriors wore...

RNZ News New research shows the pandemic has hit Pacific students harder than others, but many schools are successfully addressing the problem, an educational leader...

COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel, a reflection as Aotearoa New Zealand yesterday experienced its worst day since the covid-19 pandemic began. It came up in...

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...

RNZ News New Zealand's Ministry of Health has reported 139 new community cases of covid-19 today, with 64 people now in hospital with the coronavirus. In...

RNZ News New Zealand today reported a drop by a third in the number of new community cases of covid-19 to 60 after a record...

RNZ News New Zealand's Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare today thanked all Māori providers, iwi, hapū, practitioners, vaccinators and district health board (DHB) staff for...

RNZ News The number of covid-19 vaccinations given out during New Zealand's Super Saturday event yesterday has just ticked over the 130,000 mark. In a statement...

RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand easily eclipsed the government's "Super Saturday" day-long goal of 100,000 vaccine doses today, with 129,519 doses given out by 8pm...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk More than 120 extra vaccination sites will be open for New Zealand's 'Super Saturday' event tomorrow, with the Ministry of Health...

RNZ News National Māori Pandemic Group Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā co-leader Dr Papaarangi Reid has supported a return to a level 4 lockdown over the...

RNZ News The plan for New Zealanders with covid-19 to isolate at home suggests the government believes the spread is wider than had been thought,...

RNZ News More than 6 million vaccine doses have now been given in New Zealand, with the vast majority of those who have caught covid-19...

ANALYSIS: By John Donne Potter, Massey University; Graham Le Gros, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and Rod Jackson, University of Auckland As...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING: By Justin Latif, Local Democracy reporter If New Zealand's border restrictions are loosened for arrivals from countries with high covid-19 numbers, South...

RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says Waikato shows that New Zealand's tried and true method of stamping out the covid-19 virus is working. There were...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Auckland's daily covid-19 case numbers could reach triple figures by the end of the month, warns a New...

RNZ News New Zealand's Ministry of Health today announced 60 new community cases of covid-19, the most in nearly six weeks, while Northland and the...

RNZ News Twenty three complaints regarding New Zealand doctors spreading anti-vaccination misinformation have been made to the Medical Council as the group says it has...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ health correspondent The calls for New Zealanders to get vaccinated are becoming more urgent by the day as covid-19 embeds itself...

ANALYSIS: By Michael Plank, University of Canterbury The announcement this week that New Zealand will introduce a vaccination certificate by November is welcome news. Whether...