投稿者: Tess McClure
Figure means 20% of population has been infected with Covid but modellers say true number is likely three times higherRead all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has recorded more than 1m cases of Covid-19, after spending the first 18 months of the pa…
Surging living costs, low wages and the claustrophobia of two years behind closed borders have many seeking a fresh start elsewhereAlie Benge, a writer, and David Coffey, a mental health worker, were browsing apartment listings in Barcelona and dreamin…
The nation accepts a big psychological change, one expert says, as people prepare for more cases than they have ever seen beforeSee all our coronavirus coverageIn New Zealand’s biggest city, the streets were calm. At an Auckland supermarket, shelves of…
Prime minister says variant is now circulating in the community but ‘we’ll do everything that we can to slow the spread’Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingOmicron has breached New Zealand’s borders and started spreading in the communi…
Pictures from New Zealand defence force surveillance flight and UN satellite images show land and trees coated in ashSome of the first images have emerged from Tonga’s volcano and tsunami-hit islands, after a New Zealand defence force surveillance flig…
Tonga volcano: distress signal detected in low-lying islands after eruption, as first death reported
Regular contact with Tonga may not resume for weeks after confirmation the communications cable was cut in at least one placeA distress signal has been detected in an isolated, low-lying group of Tongan islands after Saturday’s huge volcanic eruption, …
200 daily cases for the first time as PM says it is on track to have ‘amongst the highest vaccination rates in the world’New Zealand has passed 200 daily cases of Covid-19 for the first time in the pandemic, placing it on a worrying trajectory for the …
Jacinda Ardern warns of more cases as Auckland cluster grows to 10, marking New Zealand’s first local transmissions of Delta variantSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s coronavirus cluster has grown to 10, with genomic sequencing linking it to…
PM Jacinda Ardern warns this is ‘only chance’ to stop spread of suspected Delta variantCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand will go into a national lockdown on Tuesday night, after detecting one case of Covid-19.The e…
NZ government carves NSW out of trans-Tasman bubble for 48 hours from midnight Thursday NZ timeGreater Sydney and NSW Covid restrictionsCovid NSW hotspotsNew Zealand will pause quarantine-free travel from New South Wales from midnight Thursday (NZST), …