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Technical issues led to Countdown supermarkets being short on meat this weekend.
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With 8660 contacts identified, and rising, tracers are working at 100 per cent capacity.
294 locations of interest: Supermarkets, Kmart, Warehouse stores, gym added to ballooning list
Locations of interest grow over 250, spanning across Auckland, Wellington and Coromandel.
Editorial: A positive Delta lockdown example from across the ditch
Queensland offers some hope New Zealand can crush this cluster and get back on track.
Sydney man tells of terrifying symptoms from hospital bed
"I'm an athlete but I still feel like my life was threatened by the virus," he said.
Jacqui Southey: Who'd want to be a parent in lockdown?
OPINION: How to survive the daily grind of alert level 4 with kids - and sanity - intact.
Letters: Tributes to Sir Michael Cullen
OPINION: A longer lockdown, Taiwanese cherry trees, cycle lanes and masked TV reporters.
Jarrod Gilbert: Covid and the contagion of crazy
It used to be that each village had an idiot but now those village idiots converge online.
Derek Cheng: Ongoing lockdown for Auckland, but for how long? And what's the Plan B?
Aucklanders will be in level 4 beyond Tuesday. They will want an indication of how long.
Reality check: Testing ramps up as locations of interest in region identified
Additional testing facilities have been set up in Castlecliff, Raetihi and Taihape.
Live: Third AUT student tests positive as church cluster emerges within 72 cases
One new case is in Wellington, the others are in Auckland.
'We're not the police': Fears hospo industry will have to enforce sign-in rules
Businesses worried about staff safety and compliance costs of enforcing scanning in.
Focus: NZ Delta outbreak | Sunday 22 Aug Wrap
A daily wrap of all the main developments in the Covid-19 Delta outbreak as New Zealand is plunged into lockdown for the fifth time. Video / NZ Herald.
West Auckland microbrewery blames bureaucracy for closed doors in lockdown
Only Portage and Waitakere Licensing Trusts' 24 liquor stores can open in West Auckland.
US radio host who spread vax dis-info dies from Covid-19
He said he chose not to get vaccinated because he thought he probably wouldn't die.
Illegal Melbourne engagement party couple in hiding after backlash, death threats
The pair have reportedly hired private security for protection.
Calls for boosters as study shows Pfizer's Covid jab loses effectiveness over time
Oxford University study makes case for booster shots to keep efficacy high.
About 400 Countdown staff have to isolate, five stores to shut
About 400 Auckland and Wellington staffers are having to isolate.
Contract tracers hunt people who used walkway near MIQ facility
The trio are thought to have been in the area when potential source case arrived.
Drive-through vaccination centre reaches capacity, closes, then reopens
Site is invitation-only for essential workers and those whose jabs have been cancelled.
Watch: Chris Hipkins' amusing raunchy slip up at Covid presser
Even Ashley Bloomfield couldn't help but laugh when Hipkins got flirty with the nation.
'One-eyed focus': Australia's PM proposes major Covid-19 shift
OPINION: "Case numbers will rise when we soon begin to open up. That is inevitable."
Just how did Delta get into NZ?
NZ's Delta outbreak has swelled to 72 cases. How did it start? Here's what we know so far.
Covid record-keeping to become mandatory at all levels - but retail exempt
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins broke the news at the 1pm press conference.
Focus Delta outbreak: NRHCC programme director on first drive-thru vaccination
NRHCC Covid vaccination programme director Matt Hannant at Auckland’s first drive-thru vaccination event. Video / Dean Purcell
'Rebound year': Flu may claim thousands of lives in 2022
Covid restrictions have had an impact on the flu, but that may change when borders reopen.
Aussie Covid outbreaks: NSW reports 830 local cases, three deaths
The update comes a day after thousands of anti-lockdown protesters took to the streets.
Focus Live: 21 new Covid-19 community cases, 72 in total
There are 21 new cases of Covid-19 in the community today, bringing the total number of people infected in the outbreak to 72. One million New Zealanders are now fully vaccinated.
Lockdown limbo: How a Kiwi family stuck in Indonesia stays strong
Their flights and MIQ were booked, then their son got Covid.
Why lockdowns make you feel exhausted
It's not surprising you're so tired – there's actually a biological reason why.
Five changes NZ can make to fight Delta outbreak
NZ should consider pausing international flights while it tackles outbreak, experts say.
Auckland's Western Springs College, Pukekohe High School hit by Covid-19
Two more high schools in Auckland have positive Covid-19 cases.
Delta raises 'big' questions about NZ's approach - Hipkins
The highly infectious Delta variant "changes the game considerably", minister says.