If successful, sweeping changes could spell the end of the WHO altogether.

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.

Hipkins: 'We are not being too heavy-handed on this.'

Experts say we don't know how much children transmit Covid-19 to others.

Legal action claims the country is deliberately withholding lifesaving virus information.

The WHO spends twice as much on travel as it does on medical supplies, it has emerged.

Antibody tests may be ineffective at showing if a patient is immune, the WHO says.

Experts say an earlier warning to the public could have saved lives.

Trump says the outbreak could have been contained at its source.

A lockdown has bought India time to bolster its capacity to cope with the disease.

Passengers seen crammed together on ship that infected hundreds in Australia and NZ.

'One in five patients develop complications and are at grave risk', says UK expert.

Spanish experts are investigating whether this side effect could be an early sign.

"This virus is very good at what it does. It is a killer," said Governor Andrew Cuomo.

NZ mortality rate is 0.3 percent, while other countries' rates are more than 10 percent.

Growing criticism for handling of the Covid 19 pandemic and ties to Chinese government.

WeChat site removed and blocked users after they had paid for their product.

Answers to some of the common questions people keep asking about coronavirus.

The Prime Minister's announcement set off panic buying.

A fifth of the world's population was being urged to stay at home to combat pandemic.

Auckland Grammar backs school closures, but other principals say wait.

Summerset has ramped up security around its retirement villages.

The Chinese city of Wuhan, where coronavirus first took hold, has no new domestic cases.

Netsafe has already had reports of xenophobic abuse and social- media pile-ons.

New Zealanders are being urged to pick up the phone and call their elderly loved ones.

The World Health Organisation puts some of the stranger theories to bed.

The closures have stopped not only people but also needed goods.