August 17 2021 The Covid-19 wage subsidy will be available to businesses across the country, not just Auckland and Coromandel.

“The biggest non-event in the history of the world” Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking & Kate Hawkesby get the Covid jab. Video / Newstalk ZB

New system will keep the sector accountable.

The risk is particularly high during overnight shifts, the resident medical officers say.

Cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have exploded across the country, leaving some affected children in intensive care and hospitals forced to expand capacity. Video / NZ Herald

Amaroq Therapeutics has raised $14m to develop a technology it hopes will lead to "next-generation" cancer therapy drugs with fewer side-effects. Video / Supplied

Opinion: Vaccination in one region has been delayed by at least two months.

The Government is considering mandatory QR scanning in "high-risk" locations such as bars and restaurants, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.

There have been more than 750,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine administered so far, an increase of 107,000 in the last week.

While the service won't be at full capacity for a while 22 patients will be treated today.

The data-matching system where the Government checks whether MIQ workers are properly tested failed to detect the case of the Grand Millenium security guard, who should have been tested fortnightly but wasn't tested for five months

Ministry of Health still trying to reach five Melbourne returnees.

Waikato DHB's IT centre was the target of a major cyber security attack. Video / Waikato DHB

Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said stronger public measures - like level 2.5 - might have to be new norm once the borders open. Video / Mark Mitchell

OPINION: History shows that pay suppression is bad policy. It's also bad politics.

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

Te Whare Kohaka o Wanaka to provide greater certainty around maternity care.

New Zealand's Covid-19 vaccine rollout is three per cent ahead of schedule, except in Northland where a big push to use available vaccine is underway.

The Auckland airport worker who tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday despite being fully vaccinated cleaned a plane that brought a returnee with the virus back to New Zealand on April 10.

National is already taking aim at the Government's major health sector reform, calling it a "reckless" move that will see regions lose their autonomy.

All of New Zealand's 20 district health boards will be replaced by one, single national health body responsible for the running of all hospitals, the Government has revealed. Video / Mark Mitchell

Two-year-old Elenna suffers from a rare growth hormone disorder, so rare that there is no official name for it, which means no funding for drugs that can treat the condition. Video / Mark Mitchell

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins reveals to Newstalk ZB's Heather du Plessis-Allan that a vaccine was offered "several times" to the border worker who tested positive for Covid-19. Audio / Newstalk ZB

Europe is struggling to battle highly infectious mutations of Covid-19 which are changing the game across the continent. Video / AP

Andrew Little has defended the government's investment into mental health resources.

Watch: Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins receives his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, as does Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall.

People in managed isolation at four Auckland hotels will be blocked from taking buses to exercise sites amid investigations into Covid-19 transmission in MIQ. Meanwhile, there are three new cases of Covid-19 in MIQ and none in the community.