Covid 19

Sightings of leopard seals have spiked during the level 4 lockdown.

The Māori Party has launched a petition against any more Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) facilities opening in Rotorua.

There have been 21 new community cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today - 20 in Auckland and one in Wellington. Watch the latest update here.

The locations of interest linked to the Covid-19 Delta outbreak continues to grow, with a K-Mart, a McDonalds and a Farro supermarket added to the list this afternoon.

A Rotorua couple in their 70s say they have been left confused and "angry" after being turned away from a second Covid-19 vaccination in Rotorua.

French Polynesia is grappling with a new surge of Covid-19 infections, the delta variant.

Fiji's second largest island of Vanua Levu has two more cases of Covid-19, bringing the island's total to three, after the first community case was earlier recorded there since the beginning of the…

Typically bustling streets were empty, traffic jams ceased to exist and only a handful of people could be seen out and about as the country entered day one of the level 4 lockdown.

Three educators in Florida's second-largest school district have died from Covid-19 within two days of each other, teachers' union officials say.

A drop in daily Covid-19 cases in Fiji should not be interpreted as a true reduction of infections, and could be due to changes in testing, the government said.

Basic humanitarian needs are going unmet in Fiji say charities trying to provide food for Fijians caught up in the country's health and humanitarian crisis.

New Zealand authorities says travellers from Queensland should carefully check if they've been at locations of interest after a snap lockdown was announced in the Australian state.

After last weekend's anti-lockdown protests saw thousands of people descend on Sydney's city centre, fears of a repeat fizzled this afternoon, but the prospect still caused major disruption.

Testing shows two new cases have been detected in MIQ, and none in the community, officials say.

Opinion - With most Covid-19 restrictions now lifted in England, the world is watching to see what this so-called "freedom day" will bring, writes law professor Kris Gledhill.

Covid-19 vaccinations for entire communities in rural Whanganui have begun.

Seven staff tested positive at a hotel southwest of Tokyo where dozens of Brazilian Olympic team members are staying, as the host city records a wave of new infections.

Amid the misery of a pandemic that has claimed at least four million lives, the scientific search for its origins has itself become toxic.