'I have to act now because several aged care facilities now have clusters of the disease.'

Coronavirus scams on the rise in a bid to prey on vulnerable Kiwis.

An elderly man contracts virus two weeks after nurse tested positive at his rest home.

Kiwis have flooded health advice lines asking if they've got Covid-19 and seeking help.

Cheating rules, new couples forced into lockdown together and home honeymoons.

It's official: Swimming, surfing and hunting are illegal during the lockdown.

A man has claimed he was only pranking shoppers, after coughing and sneezing on them.

Cases have levelled off in an early sign the lockdown appears to be working.

Adults arguing over the finer points of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. Video / Supplied

Mike Hosking talks with Ashley Bloomfield Director-General of Health about how well we are handling this outbreak.

Michelle Dickson and PM Jacinda Ardern chat about the coronavirus in new video.

"My little boy he just... It was really hard." Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The main hospital in the city of Bergamo struggled to cope with the high influx of coronavirus patients. Bergamo is the epicenter of the virus outbreak in Italy's hardest-hit region, Lombardy. Video / CGTN

Waikato DHB's interim chief executive Derek Wright talks about his new job. Video/Alan Gibson

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spent a few moments dishing up strawberries and ice cream to support a fundraiser for Mary Potter Hospice - and promising to look into more funding for palliative care. Credit: Mark Mitchell

Medics find 27 contact lenses that had buried themselves behind the eye of a woman .

New Year’s resolutions and a 10% price hike are believed to be behind a massive surge in calls to the national telehealth service Quitline.

Hawke's Bay iwi Ngāti Kahungunu say they warned authorities for decades about the risk of water contamination.

Editorial: Force-feeding has never been a feature of the humble dairy, yet suddenly it finds itself in the business of public health.

Apart from the serious threats they pose to personal and community health, resistant infections also carry a large economic impost, says Kevin McCracken.

The volunteer work of a Kiwi eye surgeon will change the lives of Cambodian children.

A system of alerts on the medical records of patients who may have had the fatal brain disease CJD was given up.

The days of Kiwi doctors treating toddlers for free are long-gone, with one big-city clinic charging $44 to see children younger than 5.

'This was my grandmother, a brilliant and much-loved woman. The story of the final 10 years of her life reveals a shocking truth about how Britain treats its old people.'

NZ is one of the best places to shuffle off the mortal coil, according to a new index.