Covid 19

Cat shelters are reporting pandemic-related trends, with a kitten boom and some unintended lockdown effects surfacing.

The number of people with Covid-19 who have died in New Zealand has now reached 105, with 14 deaths reported in the past two days.

Wellington City Council has been forced to limit and halt services such as roading and recycling, as Covid-19 sweeps through its workforce and contractors.

Some elderly, disabled and frail housebound West Coast residents have had their home-based care services cut for up to three months, apparently due to Covid-19.

Research into vaccine distribution shows problem gaps Audio

Up to one in three patients coming through Hutt Hospital's emergency department have Covid-19, as the region's three hospitals suffer staff shortages. .

The arrival of the Novavax vaccine in Aotearoa won't change the Thames-Coromandel mayor's Covid-19 vaccination status. Audio

Auckland hospitals are dealing with far more Covid patients than they predicted in even their worst case scenarios.

The hold-up at Watercare's new Interceptor tunnel is just one casualty from the virus rampaging through the construction sector.

Unions representing healthcare workers have hit back at the Ministry of Health's announcement that critical healthcare workers can return to work six days earlier if they have two negative rapid…

Hawke's Bay Hospital has had to scale back some of its services and operations, as the number of Covid patients in the hospital grows. Audio

Opinion - If you woke up on Saturday morning with Covid-19 symptoms and you lived on the Kapiti Coast, you wouldn't have been able to get a RAT. You wouldn't have got a free one. You wouldn't have…

Two Covid-infected women who put Te Tai Tokerau into a 11-day lockdown and hid from police won't be charged.

Doctors are stepping in to cover some nursing duties as staff absences reach a critical point at Middlemore Hospital.

The Interislander passenger ferry will sail tonight after earlier trips were cancelled due to 55 staff contracting covid-19 or isolating.

The number of new community cases of Covid-19 has dropped below the 20,000 mark for the first time in several days, but the Health Ministry is still urging caution as it expects numbers to "jump…

Small groups of anti-mandate protesters are still lingering around Wellington after being cleared out of the Parliament precinct on Wednesday Audio

There have been 22,527 new community cases of Covid-19 reported today, slightly down on yesterday's numbers, the Ministry of Health says.

Opinion - As the MIQ system winds down the outcome of the court battle over border restrictions is now moot - but the principles are still important, two lawyers say.

Reefton residents voiced their dismay amidst shouts of "bulls**t" at a protest last night at the sudden closure of the town's hospital aged-care wing, after some residents suddenly moved out of the…