Covid 19

A Covid effect appears to be behind Taranaki bucking the trend of sliding property prices - at least for now.

Nearly three years of pandemic-related disruption has damaged learning in some schools and left others almost unscathed.

It comes as three big cruise liners - one with about 130 cases on board - arrive at New Zealand ports.

Supply chain researchers argue unused PPE medical supplies should be donated to developing countries, despite the WHO recommending against it.

Creating new emergency pandemic response legislation will help avoid rushed law making if a new pandemic arises, according to a public law expert. Audio

After two years of having to wear face masks on flights to and within New Zealand, the requirement has now been lifted.

With mask mandates dropping around the world as the pandemic appears to enter a new phase, what we can learn from countries that have already left masks behind? Here's what you need to know.

Mongrel Mob life member Harry Tam wants an apology after he was wrongly implicated in the Northland Covid-19 lockdown. Audio

Thousands more children are going to school each day as Covid-19 case numbers drop. Audio

The inquest into the death of a Dunedin man linked to the Covid-19 vaccine will start this morning.

Surgeons are still taking a pen to their theatre lists every day, cancelling patients' operations at the last minute.

There are 4818 new cases of Covid-19 in the community today and there are 571 in hospital with the virus.

The Marshall Islands has lost its Covid-free status after tests confirmed six positive cases in the capital, the first known community transmission since the pandemic started in early 2020.

One of the deaths being reported in today's update was a child under the age of 10, the Ministry of Health says.

The Ministry of Health is reporting 6152 new cases of Covid-19 in the community today and a further 49 deaths with the virus.

The Ministry of Health is reporting 5312 new Covid-19 cases in the community as well as a further 28 deaths with the virus.

The government of Niue has announced the country will move to Covid-19 alert level red after it recorded nine new cases of the virus in the past 24 hours.

New Zealand has likely passed the peak of the most recent Covid-19 wave, thanks to strong hybrid immunity in the community, according to several experts.

There have been 7605 new cases of Covid-19 in the community and a further 41 deaths with the virus, the Ministry of Health reports.