Tag: Public health

RNZ News Auckland health authorities remain cautiously optimistic that the omicron outbreak may have peaked in the country's biggest city, even though 601 of the...

RNZ News New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Royal NZ College of General Practitioners president Dr Samantha Murton gave a briefing today...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila Vanuatu's Ministry of Health (MOH) has yet to inform the public on when, where and how the first person...

RNZ News The United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its travel advisory warning on travel to New Zealand. The CDC updated its...

RNZ News Twenty-eight of the anti-public health protesters who occupied New Zealand's Parliament grounds over the past month have now tested positive for covid-19. In a...

RNZ News National Party leader Christopher Luxon is the latest in a string of members of Parliament reported to have tested positive to covid-19 as...

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist All political parties have supported a motion in Parliament to recognise the "safe restoration of Parliament's grounds"...

RNZ News Police are out in force in New Zealand's capital Wellington after yesterday's massive operation to clear the illegal anti-covid public health measures occupation...

RNZ News The area around New Zealand's Parliament has today been the scene of a full-day ordeal of violence as police removed protesters whose behaviour...

RNZ News Police have made 60 arrests today as part of a pre-planned operation to remove anti-covid public health protesters from New Zealand's Parliament grounds. Police...

RNZ News Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the national health system relies on New Zealanders' continued cooperation as almost 20,000 cases are announced...

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...

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 Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says council has trespass orders "ready to go" as Auckland Domain remains closed to vehicles due to a small...

RNZ News The Auckland Domain remained closed today to vehicles until further notice, because a small number of anti-covid protesters have set up tents there...

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...

Kaniva News Kaniva News correspondent Patimiosi Ngūngūtau took this photo of an emotional farewell for a grieving Tongan family at the Tanoa hotel in Nukua’alofa...

By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education correspondent Education Minister Chris Hipkins has warned that nearly every New Zealand school and early childhood centre will have...

RNZ News New Zealand will move to phase 3 of the omicron response at 11.59pm tonight, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has confirmed. Director-General of Health...

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...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the threats and violence against news media by protesters during the 16-day anti-covid-19 vaccine mandates...

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...