投稿者: Tess McClure in Christchurch
The government is using an array of sweeteners, gimmicks and incentives to raise inoculation rates, including turning a 787 Dreamliner into a vaccination clinicSee all our coronavirus coverageYou can do it in the cabin of a Dreamliner plane. You can do…
Michael Baker said lack of discussion with independent experts was a ‘stark contrast’ to earlier pandemic decisionsSee all our coronavirus coverageA number of epidemiologists and public health experts who have been central to helping chart and communic…
Party say Maori would be ‘sacrificial lambs’ if Covid restrictions are lifted before vaccination rates riseNew Zealand’s government would be committing “modern genocide” by reopening the country as Covid spreads among under-vaccinated indigenous people…
Winged mammal is the first non-bird to be included in the beloved annual poll, which has been running for 16 yearsNew Zealand’s bird of the year competition has been hit with a flurry of controversy, after a species of native bat was granted entry into…
Nation on ‘exponential growth curve’, one expert says, with unexplained as well as total case numbers increasingSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand is bracing for increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases after recording 94 new infections over the w…
The prime minister has enjoyed huge support during the pandemic – but the country’s new course may force unpopular trade-offsThis week, New Zealand’s locked down cities woke to a brave new world of lifted restrictions: state-sanctioned picnics in parks…
Experts say the pandemic is multiplying longstanding problems linked to housing and racial inequalityLike clay pressed into a mould, Covid outbreaks tend to conform to the contours of a country’s existing inequalities and cracks, replicating them over …
Concerns about the toll a suppression approach may take have dampened excitement about loosened restrictionsNew Zealanders are grieving for the end of the country’s Covid elimination strategy and anxious about what the future holds, a day after prime m…
Concerns about the toll a suppression approach may take have dampened excitement about loosened restrictionsNew Zealanders are grieving for the end of the country’s Covid elimination strategy and anxious about what the future holds, a day after prime m…
Experts say Aukus military deal underlines Australia’s increasingly close alignment with the US on China – and New Zealand’s relative distanceNew Zealand is not part of a new security pact between Australia, the UK and US, in what experts say is an ill…
News on quarantine reopening will be welcomed by New Zealanders stranded overseas as country remains hopeful it can eliminate DeltaSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has reopened its border bookings to those trying to return home, as cases in …
Infections are half those of a day earlier and all affected are household contacts of existing casesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid-19 cases in New Zealand have dropped, a hopeful sign as Auckland enters what the government has planned to be its …
Party wants all original te reo Māori place names to be officially restored across the country in the next five yearsThe Māori party has launched a petition to change New Zealand’s official name to Aotearoa, the te reo Māori, indigenous language name f…
The country’s goal of eliminating Covid transmission looks within reach – but health experts’ optimism is cautious Less than a month ago, New Zealanders disappeared into their homes, retracting from the public domain like spilled water into a dry spong…
Tinder profiles reveal desperate reality of trying to buy a home as survey shows housing is the number one concern for Kiwis, ranked above Covid“It is a truth universally acknowledged,” Jane Austen wrote in 1813, “that a single man in possession of a g…