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Health watchdog's warning: Ordinary patients slipping through Covid-19 cracks
Letter from HDC to Health Minister raises concerns for normal healthcare during pandemic.
Letter from HDC to Health Minister raises concerns for normal healthcare during pandemic.
79 staff were swabbed after coming into contact with a nurse infected with the virus.
"It is believed damp masks may be the source of the breach."
Ministry says closing schools and childcare reduces deaths by only 2 to 4 per cent.
Dr Frances Hughes believes New Zealand could draw in more nurses.
The death of a West Auckland woman brings the Covid-19 toll to 13.
There are five new cases of Covid-19 today. There was a further death - a woman in her 70s from St Margaret's rest home in Te Atatu. Education Minister Chris Hipkins says that distance learning will continue 'for some time'.
Experts say we don't know how much children transmit Covid-19 to others.
The Auditor-General will conduct a review over the next month and then publish it.
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Professor says oxygen use can actually damage the lungs, rather than help.
Our social lives will sadly not come back on under alert level 3, says Prime Minister.
Most families opted for immediate burial or cremation, planning for a later memorial.
New mental health patients will be diverted to other hospitals away from Tauranga.
A man who had a heart attack delayed going to ED because he didn't want to be a burden.
Whanganui DHB urges people not to be complacent at this time as it may continue to spread.
Behind closed doors, scientists are raising alarm about the gaps in NZ's system.
Three ambulances were at the CHT St Margaret's Hospital this morning.
WE SAY: We need to hang in there in order to get back out there as soon as possible.
More testing is taking place in Auckland, Queenstown, Canterbury and Waikato.
The total number of Covid-19 related deaths in New Zealand reached 11 on Friday.
New Zealand’s third week in lockdown was it's most deadly, but as new case numbers continue to fall, NZ remains optimistic that Level 4 restrictions may be lifted on schedule.
Air NZ steward linked to virus cluster says he followed health guidelines.
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'I have to act now because several aged care facilities now have clusters of the disease.'
PM says NZ might be 'past the peak' but not yet out of the woods.
The DHBs say none of the eight is thought to have caught the virus at work.
She's a nurse from the bottom of the world. Now reporters are crowded at her doorstep.
The man emailed a woman without prior permission, despite a ban on internet use.
There are grave fears for a group of elderly dementia patients.