Covid

The 26 million residents of Shanghai have been dealing with strict lockdown conditions since late March due to China's zero-Covid strategy. Audio

Chey and the team translate Jacinda Ardern’s announcement to the country of our first level 4 lockdown. Covid has affected us all and this is certainly a topical issue for our Whakamāori team to dive… Video, Audio

Professor Jeremy Nicholson is the Director of the Australian National Phenome Centre at Murdoch University and a leading researcher into Long Covid. His team is working with multiple universities… Audio

Nearly a third of all current Covid community cases are children and teenagers.

Latest Health Ministry figures show 14.4 percent are children aged nine and under, and 17.4 percent are aged between 10… Audio

As the world wrestles with trying to end the Covid-19, professor David Hayman is on the hunt for our next pandemic foe. An infectious disease ecologist at Massey University, Hayman has travelled the… Audio

There are claims that Covid patients have been left waiting for antiviral treatments because Pharmac has been too slow signing a supply contract. 

But in a statement to Local Deocracy reporting, the… Video, Audio

There's concern a pharmacy test for Omicron antibody levels will lull people into a false sense of security or send them into a panic unnecessarily.

Biotech company Orbis Diagnostics says it is… Video, Audio

It's time to get back to "normal", National leader Chris Luxon says. He is calling for immediately ditching most requirements for vaccine passes.

He also wants to see isolation periods dropped from… Video, Audio

Omicron has put the brakes on booster vaccine rates and the communities lagging behind could be set to stay there for some time.

Just 11 percent of Aucklanders in hospital with Covid, have been… Audio

While Omicron cases soar in the North Island, health services across Te Wai Poumanu are still waiting for the worst to hit.

Community healthcare will bear the brunt of caring for Covid-patients and… Audio

Health authorities are hopeful Auckland's turned the corner in its Covid cases, but the region's hospitals are being stretched to their limits.

There are nearly 21,000 new cases today, with 856… Video, Audio

Susana talks to Kathryn about the passage of Covid in the Pacific, including Niue and Vanuatu experiencing their first cases. Audio

The Disability Rights Commissioner is so concerned about the situation for disabled people during omicron, she has launched an inquiry.Paula Tesoreiro says she is worried about a lack of targeted… Audio

Covid-19 hospitalisations hit a record high today with Director General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield announcing 845 people are now admitted.

There's also been rising abuse towards GPs, changes to New… Audio

UK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn to discuss the standing ovation given to Ukraine's President Zelensky during his address to the House of Commons, and how the foreign secretary Liz Truss has… Audio

It was another day of record Covid-19 infections, with 23,183 new community cases reported by the Ministry of Health. Audio

A tradie in Auckland says he knows about 25 people with Covid, none of whom have officially recorded their cases with the Ministry of Health.

There are 23,183 new cases in New Zealand on… Audio