Breaking point at hospitals: 'Patients waiting in corridors for 24hrs'
Omicron had been 'the straw that has broken the camel's back', top doctor says.
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Focus Live: 19,566 new Covid-19 community cases, ten deaths
March 17 2022 There are 19,566 new community cases of Covid-19 and 930 people in hospital, including 23 in intensive care. Ten Covid-related deaths were announced today.
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A Givealittle page is raising funds to support Daryl Saunders' wife and four children.
Focus Live: PM Jacinda Ardern on Covid-19, vaccine passes
March 17 2022 Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says mandates and vaccine passes are unlikely to be used as widely as before and Cabinet will review traffic light settings next week.
Diabetes and Covid-19: Scientists explore potential connection
Scientists believe Covid-19 can attack insulin-producing cells, triggering diabetes.
Live: Covid deaths soar to 141; Bloomfield defends isolation rules, says health system staff 'feeling pressure'
Yesterday, 19,452 community cases, 971 hospitalisations and 24 deaths were reported.
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The region where kids make up a third of Covid hospitalisations
But children often responded 'quickly' to treatment, the board says.
Exclusive: Exhausted nurses 'falling over each other' for nightly $500 Covid bonus
'We are so short staffed in every department that management are working on the floor.'
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Kenepuru Hospital closed to visitors for surveillance Covid testing
The closure will initially be for three days, after which it will be reassessed.
Focus Live: PM Jacinda Ardern announces border re-opening dates
March 16 2022 Vaccinated Australians will be able to come to New Zealand without isolating from 11.59pm on April 12. Fully vaccinated travellers from visa-waiver countries will be able to enter the country from 11.59pm on May 2.
UK abandons all Covid-19 travel rules for arrivals
People will be able to "travel just like in the good old days," says transport secretary.
GPs' president: Doctor shortage is a crisis
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How restrictions might change after Omicron peaks
Is this the end to traffic lights, gathering limits, vaccine passes, and most mandates?
Urgent jab plea for children, pregnant women due to hospitalisations
And a Rotorua doctor with Covid warns people 'not to underestimate it'.
Heart attack symptom most would ignore
Study reveals that a number of people would ignore this potential heart attack symptom.
Focus Live: Two more deaths; 21,616 Covid-19 cases today
March 15 2022 There are 21,616 Covid cases in the community today and a record 960 patients in hospital battling the virus.
Record 2642 new cases of Covid reported in Canterbury
Covid-19 cases have yet to peak in the region.
Covid outbreak linked to Wellington school camp, Ministry confirms
The Ministry of Education was informed of Covid spread at a school camp late last month.
Govt announces 'a start' of $22m for Māori Health Authority
New Zealand has been "dominated by monocultural thinking", Health NZ chair says.
Which coronavirus vaccine will work in the youngest children?
New York Times: Moderna and Pfizer in the running to vaccinate under-5s in the US.
Covid-19 vaccine booster is essential, not extra - expert
Vaccine fatigue appears to have set in with fewer people getting the booster now.
Dr Jin Russell: 'We can alleviate suffering by caring, being present and living generously'
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'I feel like nobody cares and nobody listens', says grandmother of kid with fetal alcohol disorder
Grandmother gives evidence at tribunal hearing into alcohol-related harm on Māori.
Vaccine inequity and western travel main risks for poor countries and indigenous communities
Omicron is less lethal than Delta but has an overall higher number of deaths.
Unnecessary cancer surgery after X-ray errors
A man who should have been sent to palliative care was operated on instead.
DHB failed to flag man's allergy before fatal anaphylactic shock, HDC finds
DHB did not flag the potential allergy on the National Medical Warning System.
Rapid Antigen Testing: A Hawke's Bay pharmacy dubs rollout 'outright disaster'
RAT collection sites in Hawke's Bay on facing the pressure and going on.
Southern DHB encourages people to get up to date with MMR vaccinations
Low immunisation rates and the reopening of international borders create outbreak risk.