The Ministry of Health welcomes the publication of the NZ Royal Commission COVID-19 Lessons Learned Final Report, and the opportunity to strengthen our preparation for a future pandemic.

COVID models helped counter the virus but revealed less about the impacts of emergency measures. More sophisticated modelling can help balance those trade-offs.

Six years after COVID-19 first reached New Zealand, the country is experiencing its ninth wave of infections. But the virus we are living with today behaves very differently from the one that caused ...

ACT has blasted the previous government for being power-hungry and NZ First maintained its reservations about the inquiry, but Labour defended the response as world-leading.