Covid 19

Wellington District Health Board says "exceptionally high demand" for Covid-19 vaccinations and boosters has seen some sites run short of doses.

A staff member at a Tauranga rest home who got a positive rapid antigen test (RAT) result for Covid-19 has had a negative nasal swab.

Travellers from 105 countries and jurisdictions will also be able to show proof of a negative Covid-19 result through other means than a PCR.

There are 19 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today and 43 cases in managed isolation, the Ministry of Health has reported.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has told employers to stop forcing staff to get a Covid test before returning to work after the state recorded 34,994 new cases and six deaths.

This year's Grammy Awards ceremony honouring top performances in music has been postponed indefinitely due to organisers' concerns about the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.

The number of cases picked up at the border is greater than the number in the community in Aotearoa today.

It remains unclear whether hospital staff will be stood down, after the Ministry of Health identified the Emergency Department as an exposure event.

Australians have reacted with fury and confusion after tennis star Novak Djokovic revealed he had received a travel exemption to play in the Australian Open.

NSW has recorded 35,054 new Covid-19 cases and eight deaths, while 17,636 new cases and 11 deaths have been reported in Victoria, as pressure mounts on Australia's health systems.

Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce chief executive Leann Watson says even before the Covid-19 restrictions on immigration were introduced, Canterbury was already short of workers.

There are 31 new community cases of Covid-19 and 29 new cases of the virus reported at the border in New Zealand today.

Immigration New Zealand has no plans to deport the British DJ who sparked a community scare over the Omicron variant of Covid-19.

Airborne transmission is the most plausible explanation for the spread of Covid-19 in an Auckland quarantine hotel, according to the "globally important" initial findings of a study.

New South Wales has recorded a new peak in Covid-19 hospitalisations and daily infections, with 1344 patients in hospital, 23,131 new cases.