Covid 19

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…

There are 23,183 new community cases of Covid-19 being reported today, with 503 people in hospital, including seven in intensive care.

Counties Manukau Health is postponing an average of 13 elective surgery and outpatient appointments a day in a bid to manage the Omicron outbreak.

No decision has been made whether to trespass anti-vaccination madate protesters camped on reserve land in New Plymouth.

The Auckland Domain remains closed to vehicles until further notice, because a small number of anti-mandate protesters have set up tents there and stayed overnight.

Last week much of the coverage of the occupation paralysing part of the capital made the mob look mad, bad and dangerous to be around. As it dragged on, parts of the media painted a much more…

Hospitals across the country are receiving anti-Covid-19 mandate protesters returning from Parliament, as some protesters have reportedly been spitting on police in Wellington today.

The Police Association says officers who lost their jobs should be allowed to return to work after a High Court Ruling quashed a Covid-19 vaccine mandate.