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Covid-19 headlines with summaries.
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Covid-19: FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak 'most likely'
1 Mar 2023FBI Director Christopher Wray has said that the bureau believes Covid-19 "most likely" originated in a "Chinese government-controlled lab".
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New bivalent Covid-19 vaccine booster to be available to over-30s
23 Feb 2023The Health Minister has announced a bivalent Covid-19 vaccine - which includes protection against Omicron - will be made available to people over 30.
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Covid-19 update: 8220 new cases, 24 deaths and 162 in hospital
20 Feb 2023There have been 8220 new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand over the past week, and 24 further deaths.
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Parliament protest: Plan to commemorate occupation one year on
10 Feb 2023A year on from a three-week occupation on Parliament grounds by anti-vax protesters, some believe the groups responsible are splintering along ideological lines.
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Covid-19 vaccine available for some children under 5
9 Feb 2023The new Covid-19 vaccine for under-5s at risk of severe disease should be considered for all children in the age group given their high infection rate, a epidemiologist says.
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Covid-19 outbreak: Probe exposes failings in contact tracing within Pacific community
8 Feb 2023An investigation into an early Covid-19 outbreak has concluded there was a delay in contact tracing for Pacific people, despite their vulnerabilities.
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Covid-19 update: 8882 new cases, 26 deaths and 161 in hospital
7 Feb 2023The weekly number of new Covid-19 cases in the community is 8882, with 26 further deaths reported.
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Anti-mandate activist ordered to remove social media posts about nurse
2 Feb 2023Anti-mandate activist Bradley Flutey has been ordered to remove posts he made about a nurse on social media and has been forbidden from posting about her again.
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Covid-19: 10,589 new cases, 28 deaths and 189 in hospital
30 Jan 2023The weekly number of new community cases of Covid-19 has fallen again, to 10,589, the Ministry of Health has reported.
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Covid-19 update: 13,880 new cases, 79 deaths and 242 in hospital
24 Jan 2023There have been 13,880 new cases of Covid-19 over the past week, the Ministry of Health has reported.
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China reports almost 13,000 additional Covid-19-related deaths
22 Jan 2023China has reported almost 13,000 deaths related to Covid-19 in hospitals between 13 and 19 January, adding to the nearly 60,000 in the month-or-so before that.
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Japan to consider downgrading Covid-19 to less serious infectious disease
20 Jan 2023Japan will consider revising Covid-19 measures as early as this spring, says Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
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Why elimination should be the default global strategy for future pandemics
19 Jan 2023Opinion - An upgraded global response to future potential pandemic threats would give the best chance of eliminating new infectious diseases at source before they spread globally.
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Those who lost relatives to Covid-19 in China angry at failure to protect elderly
19 Jan 2023As hundreds of millions of Chinese travel to reunite with families for the Lunar New Year, many will do so after mourning relatives who died in the latest Covid-19 wave.
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Covid-19: Number of cases drops to 19,215, 57 deaths and 333 in hospital
16 Jan 2023The Ministry of Health is reporting another drop in the number of Covid-19 cases this week.
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'Hundreds of thousands of deaths' - China's Covid death surge likely underreported
15 Jan 2023China has announced nearly 60,000 people with Covid-19 have died in hospital, a huge jump from previously reported figures, but a NZ expert says the real figure is likely much higher.
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NZ volunteers among those testing combined Covid-19 and flu vaccine
11 Jan 2023A Wellington medical company is running a trial of a combined vaccine for both flu and Covid-19. Audio
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'Novel features' of Kraken a cause for concern, Michael Baker says
10 Jan 2023The new Omicron subvariant has the potential to create a new wave of Covid-19 cases, the epidemiologist says.
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'I'm not a criminal, I'm a regular person': Charges dropped against Parliament protester
10 Jan 2023A woman who was one of the more than 250 people arrested during the anti-mandate vaccine protest at Parliament but has now had her charges dropped talks about the experience.
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Covid-19: XBB.1.5 variant detected in New Zealand
9 Jan 2023Two Covid-19 cases have been found to have the XBB.1.5 variant, also known as 'Kraken'.
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Covid-19: Fiji detects XBB.1.5 variant, starts border review
Fiji has announced it has detected the XBB.1.5 variant of Covid-19.
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Could China's Covid-19 outbreak lead to the next variant of concern? Here's what the experts say
9 Jan 2023As China emerges from its Covid-zero cocoon, the country is experiencing an unprecedented surge in cases that's fuelling global concern over new variants.
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China's 'great migration' kicks-off under shadow of Covid-19
8 Jan 2023China is marking its first Lunar New Year since 2020 without Covid-19 domestic travel restrictions and more than 2 billion people are expected to travel over the next 40 days.
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Covid-19: Health experts, politicians back govt's decision on travellers from China
5 Jan 2023Health experts are backing the government's decision not to impose pre-departure Covid-19 testing on travellers from China - saying it would be a case of "xenophobia".
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