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Australia has fallen 3.4 million doses short of its target of delivering four million Covid vaccinations by 31 March, prompting criticism of the government.
RNZ
Some migrants have not seen their families for more than a year and others are grieving the loss of parents, thousands of kilometres away.
1 NEWS
Except for travellers cancelling their reservations, no vacancies were expected until June.
RNZ
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
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Since mid January, people arriving in New Zealand from most countries have had to prove they had a negative test before their flight.
RNZ
A vaccination facility has opened in central Dunedin's Meridian Mall and clinics are also getting under way in Invercargill.
RNZ
Isolating returnees say bookings are back on for exercise buses at an Auckland MIQ hotel, despite a slip up that saw a returnee who had tested positive for Covid-19 bundled onto a bus with more than a dozen other people. Fourteen guests at the Grand Mercure had their isolation stay extended by two weeks after another the returnee whose positive test result came back while they were out walking was allowed back on the bus for the return trip to the hotel with all the others. Last week exercise trips were suspended at a total of four Auckland facilities pending an investigation. Meanwhile there were also 11 new cases of Covid-19 in MIQ - 10 of them arrived on the same flight from India. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins acknowledged mistakes had been made at the Grand Mercure. "When someone is okay to get on a bus they get a wristband. If they get a negative test result or they start presenting with symptoms that wristband is removed. "In this one particular case there
NZ Herald
Effectiveness of the pre-departure testing regime being questioned by experts.
RNZ
An audit of the number of people scanning Covid-19 QR code posters in Dunedin has shown "concerningly low" numbers of people scanning in, an Otago University academic says.
1 NEWS
The details of 714 people who had registered with the system were potentially able to be viewed.
Stuff
The unpaid and overdue bills are mounting up for New Zealanders who have gone through managed isolation and quarantine.
RNZ
A new historical case of Covid-19 confirmed today returned negative results while in managed isolation, before returning a positive result as part of an employment requirement.
Stuff
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown said he was confident two-way quarantine-free travel would be achieved in the timeframe.
RNZ
A digital health passport developed by the International Travel Association which is being trialled by Air New Zealand is likely to become a baseline standard, a computer science professor says.
1 NEWS
Researchers found severe sleep problems among healthcare workers was associated with 88 per cent greater odds of getting the virus.
1 NEWS
The lack of a two-way bubble with New Zealand means no tourists and fewer jobs in the islands.
Newsroom
Thousands separated from their loved ones by border restrictions say the hardest thing is having no concrete answers, and not knowing when things will change.
RNZ
The government says that the number of people getting the Covid-19 vaccine will climb steeply in the next couple of weeks.
Newsroom
The Ministry of Health is not able to say if a potential crackdown on vaccine exports in the European Union could affect our Pfizer supply chain, writes Marc Daalder
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A new and potentially troublesome variant of the coronavirus has been detected in India.
RNZ
Job losses have been nowhere near as bad as feared in the early stages of the pandemic, but the number of people on the main unemployment benefit remains well above pre-Covid-19 levels.
Māori Television
This appears to mean Olympic competitors could get the jabs earlier but cricketers heading to India are not so lucky.
RNZ
About 424 New Zealanders have taken return trips overseas and ticked "holiday/vacation" on their departure card, since 20 March 2020.
Stuff
Tempers are flaring at Auckland's Grand Mercure after the bungle, with one guest saying they are “losing my mind” at the prospect of staying a month.
The Conversation
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