Inside Shanghai quarantine: 24-hour lights, no hot showers
The city has reported more than 300,000 cases since late March.
The city has reported more than 300,000 cases since late March.
A total of 553 people are in hospital, including 23 in ICU.
Office supplies retailer forced to change tack as Omicron hits workforce.
Financial Times: IMF expected to downgrade forecasts as pressures mount, confidence slips.
Calculating pandemic deaths led to the 'cruellest Covid joke on the world'.
Border restriction changes have locals looking to book international trips again.
When one-time normal becomes abnormal - how to cope with being back among colleagues.
Emma-Kate Greer didn't expect her colleagues to e-meet her children quite so soon.
Modellers also estimate our Omicron wave might ultimately infect half the population.
New Omicron subvariant detected in Victoria believed to be more transmissible.
Auckland does not have the most new daily community cases for the first time today.
Covid 19 Omicron outbreak: 30 deaths and 13,636 new cases in past two days. Video / NZ Herald
The Ministry of Health didn't provide an update yesterday as it was Good Friday.
THE CONVERSATION: Short-term stress can be useful but working to exhaustion clearly isn't.
Study reveals the people more at risk of contracting Covid - even those vaccinated.
The country continues to pursue a strict policy of Covid elimination.
Steve Braunias: They were a "hear-ye, hear-ye, to announce the progress of the plague".
OPINION: Our editorial on strange expressions out of the pandemic.
New ESR wastewater sampling data has offered a fresh perspective of NZ's Omicron wave.
Having pupils off school was not too much of an issue, but staffing was another story.
Yesterday there were 9563 community cases and the rolling average continues to fall.
NSW has reported a case of Omicron XE infection brought in by an overseas traveller.
Children received a paediatric vaccine dose that was between one and 11 days expired.
9563 cases, 16 further deaths as NZ moves to orange. Video / NZ Herald
OPINION: Time to adapt to a world with one more highly infectious airborne virus in it.
A lawyer for the Destiny Church leader says all bail restrictions will be followed.
The traffic light setting means gathering limits are scrapped and mask rules relaxed.
Where exactly do you need to wear a mask under the new rules?
New York Times: Fear the strict policy has become another Mao-style political campaign.
Long Covid is a major concern because there is no clear trajectory to where it turns up.