Collected news stories, with a current focus on Covid-19 recovery
A decision to move most of the country to Alert Level 3 next week has been greeted with relief by many in the South. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...
Newshub
Despite no cases of COVID-19 in the entire South Island, it will stay in level 4 lockdown until Tuesday.
Newsroom
The Holiday Inn is planned to house both the infected and uninfected - raising questions about how this affects risk of intra-facility transmission
Southern pulses may have started to race as traces of Covid-19 were detected in Christchurch wastewater this week, but what does a positive test...
Stuff
Huge uncertainties remain over the full scale of the community outbreak and whether there will be enough Pfizer doses to vaccinate at the current pace until the next shipment arrives.
RNZ
Providers say the delays are partly caused by capacity in the managed isolation and quarantine system. The prime minister admits the delays, but says capacity is not an issue.
Newsroom
An analysis of locations of interest may show the first few days of community transmission happening under Kiwis’ noses
The Digital Documentation of COVID-19 Certificates is proposed as a mechanism by which a person’s COVID-19-related health data can be digitally documented via an electronic certificate.
RNZ
There were mixed feelings amongst essential workers finally able to get the Covid-19 immunisation at a mass vaccination event in New Plymouth today.
the Guardian
An Instagram account had called on people to get involved in the Queen Street demonstration
Stuff
Auckland looks set to face two more weeks of alert level 4, Jacinda Ardern has announced, while everywhere south of the city will move to level 3 on Wednesday.
RNZ
A top epidemiologist in Melbourne says while it's too late for New South Wales to work towards an elimination strategy, there's still time for Victoria and New Zealand.
Stuff
It has been more than a year since those outside Auckland have been at alert level 3. Here's a reminder of what you can and can't do.
Stuff
Qantas expects the bubble to reopen in December. Air New Zealand says the bubble as we knew it is probably over.
Māori Television
ACC will cover the cost of your treatment in the rare case of a vaccine injury - and the vaccine won’t invalidate your health insurance.
Stuff
Aotearoa’s recent spike in coronavirus cases has seen the nation drop 26 places in Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Rank.
Stuff
With Delta being so transmissible, has the health advice around Covid changed? We ask the experts.
NZ Herald
An announcement is due at 3pm on alert level settings as cases continue to climb.
Newsroom
Stress-testing the health system ahead of Delta's arrival looks to have fallen well short.
RNZ
The organisers of Auckland's Home Show are asking the government for a level 2 exemption so the event can go ahead in November, while wedding planners prepare for upset couples and a revenue hit due to cancellations.
Stuff
On Wednesday, New Zealand reached a testing target recommended by experts. Did we get there quickly enough?
Newsroom
Cabinet will have to weigh up test results, cases among essential workers and the virulence of the Delta variant in making an alert level decision today.
Newshub
Essential workers and a top COVID-19 expert say they'll help us get ahead of the Delta variant spread.
RNZ
Experts have warned of a few sticking points that could hinder parts of the country from shifting down alert levels this weekend.
Stuff
Focusing vaccine efforts on young people, Māori and Pasifika or Aucklanders more generally could've stemmed the Delta community outbreak, experts say.
The Spinoff
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