Collected news stories, with a current focus on pandemics
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Opinion - There's urgency for the government to act on the recommendations of the long-awaited inquiry, prominent medical experts write.
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The health agency is urging people to get vaccinated against the disease.
Delivered to the Government and made public today, the 713 page report included 39 recommendations for the Government and its agencies to make sure New Zealand is pandemic-ready and resilient.
RNZ
NZ's pandemic response has been described as a "game of two halves", where the country did well in the first year, before social cohesion began disintegrating.
RNZ
Epidemiologist Professor Tony Blakely says mandates need to be used more stringently, as he describes a "game of two halves" during the pandemic.
A long-awaited report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into NZ's Covid-19 pandemic response is being delivered to the Government today.
RNZ
New Zealand has declared a whooping cough epidemic, the fourth since it became a notifiable disease in 1996.
RNZ
Health agencies have confirmed New Zealand is in the early stages of a epidemic, with 263 cases in the past month.
NBC News
State health officials reported a possible case of bird flu in a child in the San Francisco Bay Area. Experts are investigating whether the child might have been exposed to wild birds.
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University of Canterbury Professors Michael Plank and Shaun Hendy question why New Zealand withholding crucial Covid-19 inquiry findings.
Oceania is the only continent without the highly infectious H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has caused millions of bird deaths overseas.
The leader of the World Health Organization's Covid-19 response warned New Zealand, being an island nation, was not immune to pandemics.
The detection of bird flu in a pig in the US is concerning, writes Ed Hutchinson.
In recent weeks, Congo has reported about 200 to 300 lab-confirmed mpox cases every week, down from nearly 400 cases a week in July.
RNZ
What can we expect from the summer surge and how useful are boosters and antivirals?
RNZ
Cases of Covid-19 are up on last week, as XEC emerges as the dominant variant of the virus.
NZ Herald
Two leading figures in New Zealand’s Covid-19 response have voiced worries the country could again be caught unprepared by the next pandemic – an...
Newsroom
Four Kiwis with Long Covid speak to Newsroom about their battles with the illness and the debilitating effect it has had on their lives
RNZ
Long Covid sufferers feel they've been abandoned by health authorities and the government, left to struggle alone with the after-effects of the pandemic.
The ‘real time PCR test’ will enable the detection of the virus by swabbing human skin lesions.
the Guardian
England’s chief medical officer also tells inquiry that UK’s low level of intensive care provision is a political decision
The Conversation
The COVID pandemic is ongoing, but scientists are on alert for any pathogen that might lead to another global outbreak of disease.
RNZ
From Tuesday, there will be no more free Covid-19 rapid antigen tests. Here's what that means for you.
“Get vaccinated not for yourself but for your people.”, Samora Kake says.
NZ Herald
Another Covid-19 wave is likely this summer, a modeller says, as a new mutant coronavirus variant emerges overseas. Experts tell Jamie Morton what Kiwis need...
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