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Your Covid questions answered: 'I'm stranded and hoping to come home'

We answer your questions about Covid 19 and the country's current outbreak.

Covid-19: Three big reasons NZ needs to stick with elimination

Why stick with NZ's elimination gameplan? Jamie Morton gives three obvious reasons.

Exclusive: Outbreak response hampered by DHBs flying blind on staff vaccination

The problem "presented a barrier to rapidly and safely deploying staff", an email reveals.

Auckland mum's Delta nightmare: The day my son tested positive for Covid after visiting mall

I could hear him coughing through the walls of the house at night, mum says of sick son.

Focus: Whaiora Patrick on her postnatal depression

Whaiora Patrick, 26, has severe postnatal depression yet maternal mental health authorities say she is not critical enough to qualify for funded care. Video / Andrew Warner

His brother raced across the globe to donate a kidney. Now the life-saving surgery has been cancelled

Nurses isolating amid Covid outbreak has had a devastating impact on one man's surgery.

Jet Park could be out of beds Thursday as Delta outbreak grows

A number of contingencies are being planned for, Hipkins promises.

Delay in telling public about saline vaccination error 'regrettable,' says Hipkins

Chris Hipkins also admits he was aware at least one more case of vaccine error occurred.

Had an anti-vax pamphlet? Police want to hear from you

Police say pamphlet delivery is a breach of the current Covid health order.

Mangawhai 'locked off': Police checkpoints to stop Aucklanders fleeing city

Fleeing Aucklanders will run into a wall of blue at checkpoints north of Auckland.

Auckland's second drive-through vaccination centre opens as nation rushes to get jabbed

Push is on for New Zealand vaccination rates to catch up with the rest of the world.

'Athlete or rich': Overseas Kiwi slams lack of MIQ rooms available

The number of rooms available for regular NZers has been falling since earlier this year.

Vaccine saline botch-up: Victims should be contacted - immunologist

Five Aucklanders may have been administered a dose of saline solution instead of Pfizer.

Coronavirus Covid-19: 'Significant concern' over Pacific vaccination rates

A NZ serious about inequity would have pushed for higher Pacific vaccination, GP says.

One new community case in Wellington, bringing total to 12

The Wellington case was one of 63 new cases announced today.

Live: Ardern not 'too fussed' by Aussie PM's NZ Covid criticism; More supermarkets named as locations of interest; Critical day in outbreak as cases set to surge

Experts back NZ's elimination strategy despite criticism from Aussie PM.

Wellington nears a quarter of a million Covid vaccine doses

More than 11,000 doses of the vaccine were administered over the weekend.

Covid and lockdown according to Kiwi kids

What it's really like for New Zealand kids in lockdown, as told by them.