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'Get tested': Plea for Taranaki residents recently returned from Australia
Anyone with Covid symptoms in New Plymouth is asked to get tested.
Anyone with Covid symptoms in New Plymouth is asked to get tested.
"If there is an undetected outbreak there ... it's an additional back-up measure."
Would you wear Eau de Ashley? The director general of health has inspired a perfume.
Wellington callers were wrongly told they couldn't use the service.
Kiwis in Australia will be able to get home on managed return flights over the next week.
The Government has shut the transtasman travel bubble for at least the next eight weeks. PM Jacinda Ardern said she would not risk the hard work put in by the team of 5 million by keeping the bubble open when the risk was high from the Delta variant.
It comes with half the Australian population currently in lockdown.
Wellingtonians booking Covid vaccines were led astray after the wrong number was listed.
Dedicated vaccination phone line aims to assist jab hopefuls.
All of the Mattina crew who have tested positive will remain quarantined on board.
People in group 4 will receive notification from July 28 about being able to make a vaccine booking. From the end of July the vaccination programme would really start ramping up, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said.
Ngāti Hine Health Trust has successfully administered 4557 doses, as of July 4.
A total of nine people are now infected on the ship the Mattina.
"Suboptimal care does not necessarily lead to harm," Waikato DHB says.
The news comes as Victoria's lockdown is extended.
Public health officials continue to monitor the situation in Australia.
"Measles is way more infectious than Covid. It would be easy for measles to come back."
The Ministry of Health is scheduled to provide a Covid-19 update about 1pm.
This week, crew members on two Spanish-flagged vessels have tested positive for Covid.
The Playa Zahara is close to berthing at Lyttelton with 16 of 18 crew infected with Covid.
The pause comes into force from 1.59am (NZT) on Friday.
Fines of $300 have been sent to 18 border workers.
Sixteen of 18 crew members on the Spanish-flagged Playa Zahara are infected.
Health officials as perplexed as the public by the graph unveiled by Chris Hipkins.
Nurses' union says Govt has not told them about any plans to boost nursing numbers.
Hipkins said he warned Kiwis abroad that MIQ demand would increase again.
The mass vaccination would be targeted at Manukau Institute of Technology students and their families - and would be an opportunity for people in group 4 to be vaccinated ahead of schedule.
Whānau Āwhina Plunket is already making changes, says chief executive.
Testing continues on board another ship with mariners experiencing flu-like symptoms.
Earlier this year, authorities were urgently tracking down babies missing from the system.