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Covid cases drop below 19,000, five more deaths - health chiefs' warning
Five deaths and 22,535 cases were registered yesterday.
Five deaths and 22,535 cases were registered yesterday.
For now, the sweet taste of victory - but uncomfortable questions await police bosses.
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$200,000 has been spent on "social listening" reports the Government won't release.
Rod Jackson says the only numbers that matter are hospitalisations and deaths.
The NZ Transport Agency is allowing some quality assurance tests to be deferred.
Latest deaths in Tauranga, Waikato, Dunedin and Middlemore bring toll to 67.
"We can just act as though we don't know anything," one internal email read.
Health Ministry acknowledges its system to notify GPs of patients' needs has had issues.
Testing delays mean the vulnerable or critical workers may have fallen through the cracks.
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Decision comes as 14,633 new community cases and 24 border cases were reported.
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The use of rapid antigen tests is better showing the extent of the outbreak, experts say.
Russian military might rolls on into Ukraine as global condemnation heats up.
Letting overseas arrivals head straight into the community poses little additional risk.
Nurses are working double and even triple shifts - 24 hours - to plug gaps.
Trip "unlocking opportunities that will drive our economic recovery from the pandemic".
It comes as more than 12,000 new community cases were reported in NZ today.
Protesters are chanting "shame on Russia" and "Putin terrorist".
A pharmacist says countless symptomatic people are seeking tests she can't give out.
Saturday protest a new anti-mandate drive by Destiny Church's Freedom & Rights Coalition.
"The site is no longer a safe environment for families and children," police say.
Of the 12,011 new cases, 3807 were detected via PCR tests and 8223 were by using RATs.
Paul Craig Thompson is accused of having attended two Auckland Domain protests in October.
Richie McCaw surprised staff at a struggling tourism business.
There will also be a new supply of RAT tests and masks for schools.
The Government was wildly off in its estimate of people covered by mandates.
We've been able to largely go about our lives without Covid. That is no longer the case.
Only one airline remains flying unvaccinated passengers from Australia.