Covid 19
Pandemic pressures hit cat shelters
Cat shelters are reporting pandemic-related trends, with a kitten boom and some unintended lockdown effects surfacing.
Covid-19 death toll: 'People are losing years of a potential healthy life'
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.
Up to 40% of Wellington council teams off sick, services slashed
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.
West Coast DHB slashes home-care
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.
Investigations into Covid-19 provision 'void' for disabled and at-risk
Research into vaccine distribution shows problem gaps Audio
'People are really tired': Hutt Hospital faces influx of Covid patients amid staff shortages
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. .
Thames-Coromandel mayor to remain unvaccinated despite Novavax claims
The arrival of the Novavax vaccine in Aotearoa won't change the Thames-Coromandel mayor's Covid-19 vaccination status. Audio
Nearly 50% of children presenting at Middlemore emergency department have Covid
Auckland hospitals are dealing with far more Covid patients than they predicted in even their worst case scenarios.
Omicron brings Auckland tunnelling machine to a halt
The hold-up at Watercare's new Interceptor tunnel is just one casualty from the virus rampaging through the construction sector.
'Only individuals can judge how unwell they are', nurses union says
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 services reduced as Covid-19 outbreak grows
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
Getting a rapid antigen test on the Kapiti Coast - an exercise in the absurd
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…
Pair who caused Northland lockdown won't be charged
Two Covid-infected women who put Te Tai Tokerau into a 11-day lockdown and hid from police won't be charged.
Doctors filling in as Middlemore hit with staff shortages
Doctors are stepping in to cover some nursing duties as staff absences reach a critical point at Middlemore Hospital.
Interislander resumes sailing after Covid-19 halt to service
The Interislander passenger ferry will sail tonight after earlier trips were cancelled due to 55 staff contracting covid-19 or isolating.
Covid-19 update: 18,833 new community cases, 597 people in hospital, five deaths
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…
'The best thing they can do now is pack up and go home'
Small groups of anti-mandate protesters are still lingering around Wellington after being cleared out of the Parliament precinct on Wednesday Audio
Covid-19 update: 22,527 new community cases, 562 in hospital, five deaths
There have been 22,527 new community cases of Covid-19 reported today, slightly down on yesterday's numbers, the Ministry of Health says.
How will history - and the law - judge New Zealand's mothballed MIQ system?
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.
West Coast DHB under fire from Reefton residents
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…