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.

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 ...

She has received funding from the Health Research Council, the Ministry of Health, and the EuroQol Foundation. She is a member of the Public Health Advisory Committee. This time six years ago, as ...

A Wellington woman has been sentenced to community detention for Covid-19 relief fraud after forging bank statements to support applications for a defunct company. Sonam Godara pleaded guilty to using ...

A second Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s experience and handling of the COVID pandemic released its substantial report today, running to several volumes and hundreds of pages. The ...

A “severe” new strain of flu might already be in New Zealand - and foreshadowing an unusually “bad winter” for sickness. Top doctors fear the latest variant of the virus, coupled with a fresh Covid ...

The 500-plus-page report looks at what it calls some of the "most difficult and divisive responses around vaccines and ...

"At least 70% of COVID infections come from children," stated ACA spokesperson Sandy Hildebrandt. "We can significantly reduce the spread and harm from this virus by simply cleaning the air in ...

Just over half of the eligible population had the Covid-19 booster, with experts keen to see it given alongside the annual flu vaccine.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is being warned that it could be a mistake to hold the official cash rate next month and urgent action is needed to suppress inflation pressures.