Covid 19

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.

For the last two-and-a-half years, Niue's been largely untouched by Covid-19. But that all changed when the first quarantine-free flight arrived from New Zealand.

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.

As winter really sets in, Covid-19 case numbers are back on the rise. Should health authorities be acting with more urgency?

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.