Covid-19: Mariner tests weak positive; wastewater results expected later today
Experts say the risk to public health from the Covid-positive mariner is 'negligible'.
Experts say the risk to public health from the Covid-positive mariner is 'negligible'.
How ESR scientists detect Covid-19 in wastewater samples. Video / ESR
'We wouldn't want them to be carte blanche open to everyone.'
The results from the new samples are expected to be available tomorrow evening.
We still don't know how effective NZ's sewage testing is, expert says.
Experts say latest 'weak' positives fit pattern of old infections picked up in wastewater.
It's likely the result is due to recovered cases continuing to shed the virus, MoH says.
Anyone in NZ who was at Melbourne places of interest must call Healthline for advice.
Contact tracers continue to follow up with 4500 recent arrivals from Victoria.
120,000 people have had their second doses of the Pfizer jab and are fully vaccinated.
There have been more than 388,000 vaccines administered across New Zealand. 120,000 of those have had their second doses.
The public health risk has been identified as low.
The first flights from Sydney landed back in NZ yesterday after a three-day pause.
The Covid-19 crisis is engulfing a mountainous nation of 30 million people.
The first flights from Sydney are due to touch down again this afternoon.
Medicinal cannabis campaigners say the Government's dogmatic approach is "ludicrous".
Port workers should get paid breaks to ensure they get the Covid-19 shot, union says.
The two new cases in MIQ are from the Philippines and Pakistan.
But IT leaders back Orion Health CEO Ian McCrae in his complaint to the Auditor-General.
Dr Ashley Bloomfield has defended the snap bubble decision as "the right thing to do".
One of Fiji's new Covid cases is a man who flew via Auckland.
Flights from New Zealand have been paused into NSW after a fresh community outbreak.
It comes after a week of heated debate in Parliament about the authority and its powers.
Gladys Berejiklian suggested NZ's response was not proportionate to the risk.
Sydney authorities continue to monitor the Covid situation there.
Government employees earning over $60,000 will now find it difficult to get a pay rise.
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins announces that NZ has surpassed 300,000 vaccines delivered and set new daily records for dosage numbers. Video / Derek Cheng
Officials will update how many vaccines have been administered in NZ.
Busloads of Aucklanders and a couple who flew from the South Island turned away.