Rowan Quinn

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.

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Senior doctors are warning a dwindling workforce is contributing to stress and burnout - and contributing to long waits for patients.

More than 2000 children, many in pain, are waiting up to eight months for specialist dental work in the city, while 60 percent were overdue for their regular appointments.

Thousands of Auckland children, many in serious pain, are waiting up to eight months for dental treatment and the situation is set to get worse.

Few people from Auckland's August cluster have spoken publicly about their ordeal, but one family - of whom five tested positive - have revealed the "chaos" that hit them.

The government has purchased several bulk freezers for storing a coronavirus vaccine after news one could be ready next year.

Health workers in MIQ hotels are some of the worst protected in the developed world, according to a man who's helped kit out medical staff worldwide. Audio

Auckland's DHBs have acknowledged hotels are not ideal healthcare venues in a report into how a nurse caught Covid at the city's quarantine facility.

Covid-19 has put a huge dent in the fight against smoking, obesity and alcohol harm in Auckland, a new report says.

Matt Johnson is trying to stop children getting the disease that cut his rugby career drastically short and nearly killed him.

Auckland's Covid community testing centres have been dramatically scaled back, with just six still operating - and none open on weekends. Audio

A woman who could suffer extreme bleeding from a Covid-19 nasal swab is being detained in managed isolation for longer because she did not have a day 12 test.