The South Island Whānau Ora commissioning agency is gearing up to get the message out about the need for people to get the COVID-19 vaccination when it becomes available..Read more

A South Auckland church leader wants central government to loosen its grip on COVID-19 messaging so local authorities can fill the gaps..Read more

The head of the Mangere Budgeting Service wants schools to rethink their uniforms in light of the financial challenges on families because of COVID-19..Read more

There’s a call for the Government to update its risk profiles for COVID-19 in light of the current experience with the South Auckland cluster..Read more

A new series of COVID-19 announcements produced for the Ministry of Health are going viral, as they say..Read more

The health select committee will reconvene today for its last act of the parliamentary session, as Opposition parties try to find flaws in the Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic..Read more

Aucklanders are being urged to follow the new rule for COVID Alert Level 2.5..Read more

A member of the COVID-19 Surveillance and Testing Strategy Group would like to see better communication around who needs to be tested and when..Read more

A former heavyweight boxer has turned his fitness and weightloss business into a foodbank..Read more

The chief executive of a Maori medical service is unhappy at the appointment of long time public sector troubleshooters Sir Brian Roche and Heather Simpson to head a review of the border testing strategy..Read more

A South Auckland school principal says COVID-19 lockdowns are leading to some pupils in low decile kura quitting to support their families..Read more

A South Auckland school principal says it's too risky to bring children back to school while COVID-19 is in the community..Read more

Police Deputy Commissioner Wally Haumaha says contingency plans are being put in place in case an increase in COVID-19 alert levels leads to returned demands for community checkpoints..Read more

Labour Party deputy leader Kelvin Davis says nothing is being held back from New Zealanders about the COVID-19 situation here..Read more

National’s Northcote MP Dan Bidois says everyone who wants a test for COVID-19 should be able to get one..Read more

Get tested for COVID-19 if you’re showing symptoms, but if not, stay at home..Read more

The head of the South Island whanau ora commissioning agency says mental health is top of mind as it contemplates the return of COVID-19 restrictions..Read more

Ngāti Hine has ramped up its COVID-19 emergency response taskforce as Te Taitokerau moves into Alert Level 2..Read more

Health officials are using genome sequencing to try to identify the source of the COVID-19 outbreak in a South Auckland family..Read more

The flare-up in community transmission in COVID-19 has disrupted electioneering..Read more

Work colleagues of one of the family at the centre of the South Auckland COVID-19 outbreak are also showing symptoms..Read more

A member of the Māori pandemic response group says the health system should now have the capacity to deal quickly with an outbreak of community transmission of COVID-19..Read more

Eastern Bay of Plenty iwi Te Whānau ā Apanui will this afternoon discuss whether it again needs to close off its borders to prevent COVID-19 reaching its vulnerable population..Read more

While some polytechnics are experiencing an increase in enrollments as people who have lost jobs because of COVID-19 retrain, there has been no such surge in the wānanga sector..Read more

It’s back to level 3 for Aucklanders today, as health authorities try to get a grip on a case of community transmission of COVID-19 in a South Auckland family..Read more