Tag: Omicron peak
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...
Auckland’s new covid-19 case numbers not highest in NZ for first...
RNZ News
For the first time since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, Auckland does not have the most new daily community cases reported.
The Ministry...
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...
NZ’s omicron outbreak: PM Ardern heralds changes to traffic light strategy
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed cabinet's decisions about when and how covid-19 restrictions will be eased.
She said the traffic light...
NZ’s covid-19 case numbers past their peak in Auckland, says Bloomfield
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...
Omicron peak not right time to relax public health measures, says...
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...
Declining NZ covid-19 case counts – but record deaths and more...
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...
Border controls: Tourists may be welcomed to NZ earlier, says Skegg
RNZ News
Epidemiologist Sir David Skegg, who along with his team has been providing advice to the New Zealand government on the covid-19 response, says...
‘Take omicron seriously,’ expert Rod Jackson warns New Zealand
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...
Easing of NZ restrictions to begin ‘well beyond’ omicron peak, says...
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,...