Rapid work was underway at Auckland District Health board to plan for life with Covid after borders open up, with modelling helping bosses to plan. It paints a sobering picture of what having Covid permanently in the community will look like. Under the scenario they think is most likely, there would be, on average, more […]

Covid-19 elimination is possible but that does not mean New Zealand will necessarily get to zero cases, the Director-General of Health, Dr. Bloomfield says. Daily cases have been bouncing around in the 20s and teens for the past week and have yet to fall below 10. Bloomfield said he doesn’t think a level 1 scenario […]

Auckland moves to alert level 3 from 11:59pm today for at least two weeks, to be reviewed on 4 October. The area around Mangatangi, in northern Waikato, is under a section 70 order requiring people who live or work there to stay at home. The rest of the country will stay at level 2, though […]

There have been 24 new community cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today – the second daily increase in a row. There have now been 1050 total cases associated with the current community outbreak. Eleven and 13 cases were reported on the previous two days. There are 13 people in hospital with the coronavirus, […]

There have been 14 new community cases of Covid-19 reported today, all detected in Auckland, the Ministry of Health has revealed. There are 20 cases in hospital today, including four in ICU or HDU. The Ministry said 441 of the 966 Auckland cases had now recovered, while all but two of Wellington’s 17 cases have […]

There are 15 new cases of Covid-19 in the community, the Ministry of Health has announced. There are 21 people with Covid in hospital and four in ICU. 2,862,765 people have received their first vaccines and 1,462,725 have had their second jabs

The Government is responding to the need for support in Auckland and has committed a further $10 million to help people access ongoing food and other essential items, Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni announced today. This latest tranche is targeted at the Auckland region, helping providers and organisations to distribute over 50,000 more food […]

Today’s decision to keep Auckland in a higher COVID Alert Level triggers a third round of the Wage Subsidy Scheme which will open for applications at 9 am this Friday. “The revenue test period for this payment will be the 14th to the 27th of September. A reminder that this is available for those in […]

Press Release: Northern Region Health Coordination Centre Members of Auckland’s Korean community today embraced the opportunity to be vaccinated at Unichem Browns Bay – with 209 people receiving doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Arriving at a special clinic set up behind the Clyde Road pharmacy, members were welcomed by Korean Women’s Association of New Zealand […]

The number of new community cases in New Zealand has dropped back to 20 cases today. The total number of cases in the current community outbreak is 922. There were also three new cases in managed isolation. Eighteen people are in hospital. Four are in ICU. Cabinet is meeting tomorrow to consider any changes to […]