Focus: NZ Delta Outbreak | Monday 11th Oct Wrap
Current restrictions in Auckland, Northland and Waikato are to stay for now while vaccine requirements have been announced for education and health-care workers. Video / NZ Herald
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'Irresponsible and dangerous': PM's message to missing Northland traveller
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'Not an easy decision': Vaccination mandatory for education and health workers
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Focus Live: Auckland Covid rules to stay; Northland and Waikato at level 3 until Friday
October 11 2021 Covid-19 restrictions in Auckland won't be relaxed as alert level 3 "as it stands" will stay in place for another week. Waikato and Northland will remain at alert level 3 until 11:59pm on Thursday.
PNG and Fiji both faced Covid carnage. Why has one vaccine rollout surged and the other stalled?
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Live: Call for Auckland to go to level 4; 35 new cases ahead of decision
All of today's new cases are in Auckland and 21 of them remain unlinked.
'The system is a mess': Winston Peters on Northland lockdown
Government has 'lost the plot' with Covid response, Peters says.
Two deaths on Auckland's Manukau harbour in two days
One person was diving, the other was using a kayak when they got into trouble.
Rogue 'parent group' hijacks school's bake sale sign to question vaccination
The message was written by a 'slightly naughty' parent group using a school sign.
Auckland climbs four spots in the race to be fully vaccinated
Auckland is up four places, but Dunedin leads the pack as the Top Town.
Three Covid cases in Mt Eden prison; Brash - gangs not the 'fall guys' for virus
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National upset over Government vax meeting snub
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Professor Shaun Hendy says as cases trend upwards, the outbreak is at a critical point.
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Cabinet will be today decide if there are any changes to Auckland's restrictions.
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