Stories by Rowan Quinn

The country's biggest district health board is having to hold weekend elective surgeries as nursing shortages force it to postpone operations.

Scrutiny is falling on pre-departure safeguards for travellers coming into New Zealand, and an expert says they are letting too many Covid-19 positive cases through. Audio

Targets for speedy Covid-19 testing were not met during Auckland's February cluster.

Some rural doctors, nurses and frontline health workers are turning down their first chance of getting a Covid vaccine because they would have to take hours out of their busy day to get one.

A vaccination campaign to prevent another dangerous measles epidemic has reached only 3 percent of its target as DHBs struggle in the wake of Covid-19.

New Zealand should stay at alert level 2 for longer, even if a decision is made to drop Auckland's level, Shaun Hendy says.

Some South Auckland GPs have been turned away when trying to get vaccinated for Covid, despite working on the frontline of the recent community outbreak.

Covid-19 positive families at the centre of the latest outbreak are anxious but getting better as they quarantine at the Jet Park, says a woman who's been supporting them.

The government is being urged to consider putting South Auckland near the top of the queue when the vaccine rollout goes wider, as suburbs grapple with a Covid-19 outbreak. Audio

An investigation in the Pullman Hotel outbreak is looking at whether airborne particles generated by bowel movements could have been a factor.

After months of leading "level four lives," workers at the country's most dangerous Covid facility say they are thinking of their families and communities after becoming the first border staff to be…

Doctors on the frontline of the latest outbreak are on high alert despite the government moving Auckland to level 2. Audio

Covid-19 could still easily slip the country's safety net and cause another lockdown despite new managed isolation rules, a leading epidemiologist says.

Nervous Papatoetoe High School students are lining up in big numbers to get tested, saying they want to do their bit to stop Covid-19 getting into the community.

A managed isolation cleaner says she's afraid to join the gym, limits her trips to the supermarket and worries all the time about passing Covid-19 onto others.

Government agencies are gearing up to combat a barrage of vaccine-related scams expected to hit during the Covid-19 immunisation campaign.

Covid-19 jabs given to millions of people around the world will factor into the decision this week about whether Pfizer's vaccine can be used here.

Doctors and nurses are racing to learn to give the Pfizer vaccine Covid-19 vaccine, as a major step towards the rollout is signalled.

The government is being urged to stop using any hotels with sub-par ventilation for managed isolation so it can prevent Covid spreading between unwitting guests.

Overweight women in South Auckland are having to wait longer than others for a diagnosis of gynaecological cancer.

Anxious rural doctors are worried about coping with the threat of Covid as people flock to small holiday settlements this summer.

Mental health patients are still being locked in small sparse seclusion rooms despite district health boards being told to end the practice by the end of the year.

A three-year-old girl whose back teeth were crumbling and painful couldn't be treated immediately because her case didn't qualify as urgent.

Four months after its launch, a campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of young adults against the measles has barely made inroads.

Analysis - The coronavirus vaccine cavalry is coming, but with caveats - there are trials to finish, regulators to impress, logistics to arrange. Health correspondent Rowan Quinn assesses where we're…