Covid-19 booster rates are flatlining, even as case numbers surge in the country's third wave. Only 43 per cent of people over 50 have had a second booster,... Read More

Covid-19 is killing three times as many New Zealanders as influenza does in a typical year. University of Otago epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says while... Read More

There have been 40,098 new cases of Covid-19 and 35 deaths of people with the virus over the past week, the Ministry of Health says. There were also a total of... Read More

Starship specialists have described an appointment with the parents of a baby at the centre of a court dispute that was hijacked by one of their support people... Read More

The government hopes a Royal Commission into its Covid-19 response will provide the strongest possible playbook for any future pandemic. The prime minister has... Read More

There have been 34,528 new cases of Covid-19 and 23 deaths of people with the virus over the past week, the Ministry of Health says. As of Sunday midnight, 418... Read More

Te Whatu Ora is going to court over a couple who do not want their sick baby to have surgery unless doctors use blood from unvaccinated donors. Anti-vax campaigner... Read More

New Zealand has seen a spike in Covid-19 numbers - with 6000 cases reported today. That is 1247 more cases than were reported last Tuesday. Of the cases announced... Read More

There are 27,076 new cases of Covid-19 this week, the Ministry of Health says. There were also 58 deaths of people with Covid-19 and 328 people with the virus... Read More

A lead author behind one of the first papers in the world to confirm the safety of COVID-19 vaccines - including the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine rolled out in New... Read More

There are 24,068 new cases of Covid-19 this week, says the Ministry of Health. There are also a further 40 deaths being reported today, including a child under... Read More

There were 4282 daily Covid-19 cases reported today, breaking a plateau that has lasted about three weeks. The number is 9.4 per cent higher than the previous... Read More