Covid 19

There have been 10,470 new cases of Covid-19 in the community and a further 16 deaths with the virus reported today, the Ministry of Health says.

The Ministry of Health says one of the deaths being reported today was that of a child under 10 years old.

The Ministry of Health says it is closely monitoring the steady increase in Covid-19 positive hospitalisations as part of an ongoing review.

The Ministry of Health has revealed that the Omicron subvariant BA.2.75 has been detected in the country for the first time.

Air New Zealand expects to reach 75 percent of its pre-Covid-19 international capacity and more than 100 percent of pre-pandemic domestic capacity by the end of 2022, according to its chief executive…

In its last meeting before dissolution, a Lakes District Health Board member has taken a final swing at the government over MIQ, saying it was "imposed" on the city.

The Ministry of Health failed to properly estimate the Covid-19 PCR testing capacity of the country's laboratories before they were swamped by the surge of Omicron cases, an external review has found.

Celebrated for its bacon butties initiative, the Taranaki District Health Board has reached back into its culinary bag of tricks to help boost vaccinations rates.

Staff illness is adding pressure to the healthcare sector and with tomorrow being the official start of winter and seasonal illnesses expected to spread, experts say it will only get worse. Audio

There have been 18 more deaths of people with Covid-19 and 8436 new cases identified in the community, the Ministry of Health has reported.

Figures obtained under the official information act show the government spent $9.1 million sending international returnees to MIQ facilities around the country between December last year and February…

There have been nine more deaths of people with Covid-19, and 4841 more community cases of the virus detected, the Ministry of Health says.

Some primary school principals want a return to compulsory face mask-wearing as they head into the colder months.

Two sub-variants of the Omicron Covid strain, BA.1 and BA.2, are circulating in Vanuatu, the country's health minister Bruno Leingkone says.

Two passengers on a flight between Fiji and Samoa last Saturday tested positive to Covid-19 on arrival at Faleolo Airport.

"Tangata whenua had to defend themselves in the first lockdown, we put up borders, we set up systems within the iwi and within the rural areas to be able to cope whilst waiting for a vaccine. So no…

Another 11 Covid-19 cases have been recorded in French Polynesia in the last 72-hour reporting period.

Samoa's overnight curfew will ease, schools will begin opening this week and some travel can resume under changes to Covid emergency restrictions.

Australia has become a world leader in a very unwanted way - the amount of people to be infected with Covid-19 per-capita.