Collected news stories, with a current focus on Covid-19 recovery
NZ Herald
Locations of interest grow over 250, spanning across Auckland, Wellington and Coromandel.
Flight cancellations and 10-hour road trips were some of the transport woes facing southern travellers returning from overseas. Cardrona Distillery...
RNZ
Auckland health authorities are urgently recruiting more contact tracers as the national system hits capacity five days into the Delta outbreak.
Newshub
"People in businesses will be worried about some extreme customer reactions."
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Sikh Aware has noted a growing number of people approaching them for help.
Stuff
You can travel by car to exercise, but keep the distance short. Mask use and physical distancing are encouraged when others are nearby.
Newsroom
Covid-19 cases now total 72 as the country stays at home on day five of lockdown.
RNZ
There have been 21 new community cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today - 20 in Auckland and one in Wellington. Watch the latest update here.
Stuff
Two women were caught trying to protest the level 4 restrictions, police say, while further south, men from six different bubbles went jet boating.
The Standard
Claims that a comprehensive vaccination scheme will allow life to get back to normal ignores the experience of Israel, which despite having a large proportion of its population vaccinated is having a surge of new infections of Covid that is stretching its health system.
Māori Television
Over ten thousand close contacts across the country (excluding schools and the like) are in self-isolation, and with over 200 locations of interest connected...
Māori Television
Over ten thousand close contacts across the country (excluding schools and the like) are in self-isolation, and with over 200 locations of interest connected...
ZB
It's Day 5 of Alert Level 4 lockdown.Another 21 community cases were confirmed yesterday, bringing the number of people infected in this outbreak to 51.The
Epidemiologist Michael Baker says the Covid Delta outbreak should peak this coming week and despite a large number of exposure events, "I am sure...
Māori Television
The government is restarting childcare for workers in alert level 4 businesses and services.
1 NEWS
"If I was an Aucklander I would certainly be preparing to be at home for a bit longer," he told Q+A's Jack Tame.
NZ Herald
The peak in cases is not expected until early this week.
Stuff
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says officials expect Covid-19 cases to rise throughout next week, with thousands of people potentially exposed .
1 NEWS
As many as 13,000 people could be vaccinated by week's end.
Stuff
The Covid-19 testing system has been pushed “beyond its limits”, Professor Michael Baker says.
Stuff
Ministry of Health say supply problems have disappeared and they can now manage between 50,000 and 60,000 doses a day, even in lockdown.
RNZ
Updates on events throughout New Zealand; the first drive-through mass vaccination centre opens, Covid-19 positive cases are now linked to six Auckland schools, and more.
RNZ
Case numbers of the Delta variant of Covid-19 are tracking as expected, but it's too early to tell how high they will go, an epidemiologist says.
Stuff
Two of Mary-Lyn Chambers' friends died from Covid-19 and the director has suffered from long Covid. She's urging people to vaccinate.
RNZ
More than 1500 people were vaccinated on the first day of New Zealand's largest drive-through vaccination centre in South Auckland.
The Spinoff
View all places of interest on the maps below, and sort by both the dates of potential exposure and the days when added. Plus: a searchable table with all locations. Built by the Spinoff's head of data, Harkanwal Singh. The Spinoff's coverage of the Covid story depends on support from Members
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Kiwi scientists about why we are seeing vaccinated people contracting Covid-19 and why it’s vital to get vaccinated.
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