Covid 19

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says existing MIQ facilities may be needed until mid-2022.

"At this point it's still a bit of crystal ball gazing. We're doing a variety of plans, for the… Video, Audio

An MIQ security guard lied nine times about having Covid-19 tests when he had not, according to reviews into two incidents at two isolation hotels.

The investigations into outbreaks in March and… Audio

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has announced an extended pause on quarantine free travel with Victoria as the outbreak of Covid-19 in Melbourne continues.

The pause will be in place for at… Audio

New Zealand's rate of border failures is three times higher than Australia. In just-released reports, airborne transmission is being considered the most likely cause for the spread of Covid-19 at two… Audio

The Ministry of Health has identified nearly 200 extra people who made it into the country from Melbourne, without officials knowing. Nearly 50 of them are still here - they need to immediately… Audio

UK correspondent Harriet Line joins Kathryn to talk about the pressure the government is under to forgo a planned lifting of restrictions in three weeks, as the country had its first Covid death-free… Audio

Niue's first delivery of Covid-19 vaccines has arrived.

The small number of innoculations are being used to vaccinate the vaccinators and other key people.

This opens up the possibility of the… Audio

To the Australian state of Victoria, where it's just been announced that lockdown restrictions will remain for a further seven days. Audio

Fiji is continuing to face a growing Covid outbreak which started last month. At least 10 doctors from a private medical facility - Zen Medical Centre in Nadi are in quarantine after a colleague… Audio

Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about the latest Covid studies, including the 80 per cent rollout of the Pfizer vaccine to Israeli adults and the safety of the vaccine for… Audio

Victoria has now recorded 11 new infections in the last day.

A Covid-19 cluster in a Melbourne aged-care home has grown to three cases after a second staff member has tested positive for Covid-19.

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Melbourne's Covid-19 outbreak is up to 45 community cases - five more have been confirmed today. The ABC's Stephanie Ferrier tells Max Towle health officials are still trying to work out how the virus… Audio

While the world continues to struggle to contain Covid-19, scientists are warning of another coronavirus pandemic on the horizon -- one which is likely to come from a yeast-like fungus. Dr Tom Chiller… Audio

Are you a daydreamer? Many of us were as children, but as adults we find it increasingly harder to be pleasantly lost in our thoughts. Nick Buttrick was part of a team that published a study on… Audio

Director Rodney Ascher's debut 'Room 237' offered up some wild theories about interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's visionary masterpiece 'The Shining.' His latest documentary, 'A Glitch in the… Audio

Long working hours led to 745,000 deaths from stroke and heart disease in 2016 - a 29 percent rise since 2000, according to new research from the WHO and the International Labour Organisation. The… Audio

Christchurch native Rowan Bashford is living his best life in Iceland, where he runs a guiding company with his partner, Guðný Diljá Helgadóttir, and lives on a farm called Malarás in the Öræfi… Audio

Professor Michael Baker is back to look at a few different Covid-19 stories doing the rounds, including the prospect of an 'Olympic coronavirus' strain being created if the Games go ahead in Tokyo as… Audio

Kim Spencer-McDonald says she knows a number of women who, as she did, have fallen in love with the farmer but not necessarily the farm. She says meaningful, stimulating off-farm jobs are difficult to… Audio

Fancy the thought of lying on a sun-soaked beach, sipping a cocktail and getting a Covid-19 jab while you're at it?

Well, a growing number of countries are offering just that with Guam, the Maldives… Audio