Rowan Quinn

The government has bought the extra doses from Spain to tide it through until its next major shipment from Pfizer in October and prevent a slowing in the high vaccination rates sparked by alert level…

Test results from 149 patients and staff at Middlemore Hospital have come back negative for Covid-19 after a man admitted at the weekend was found to have the virus. Audio

Covid-19 swabbing numbers have been falling so fast in Auckland that some centres closed early at the weekend.

A Dunedin nurse who's leaving his family behind to help with Auckland's Covid-19 effort says he's doing it to keep them - and the whole country - safe.

All three of Auckland's main hospitals are building more negative pressure rooms to keep up with the Delta strain of Covid-19.

Auckland's hospitals are asking others around the country to send intensive care nurses to help them cope with the Covid outbreak.

Urgent building work is underway at Auckland City Hospital to prepare more room for Covid-19 patients.

Hospitals are honing their surge plans for dealing with Covid-19, with the rate of hospitalisation higher than previous outbreaks.

The Novotel Hotel in Auckland will become city's newest covid quarantine facility from midday tomorrow.

The enormous pressure on contact tracers is expected to ease over the next few days - but only if case numbers drop as hoped.

Auckland health authorities are urgently recruiting more contact tracers as the national system hits capacity five days into the Delta outbreak.

An Auckland vaccination clinic is doing about half the numbers it was before the lockdown - but is relieved to be back up and running.

Nurses have call off strike action set for 19 August following a community case of Covid-19 in Auckland and a nationwide lockdown.

The huge spike in the respiratory virus RSV that has been overwhelming hospitals has eased, but there's a warning further surges can be expected.

Less than a quarter of those sent initial invitations to the country's first mass Covid-19 vaccination event booked a slot.

Vaccinators will inject one person each a minute at the country's first mass Covid-19 vaccination event - if all goes to plan. Audio

Psychologists are turning away as many as 60 clients a month because they have no space to see them.

Work to upgrade Middlemore Hospital's baby unit was under way for a month with no building consent.

New Zealand doctors, nurses and medical staff are being canvassed about a possible deployment to Fiji.

Wellington Hospital has more than 20 babies in its children's ward, as the spread of the potentially deadly RSV virus escalates.

Since a surge in sick children about three weeks ago, the hospital has set up 11 beds in the playroom to help cope with already full wards.

The first of the crucial day five test results are expected today, after Wellingtonians turned out in their thousands to be swabbed for Covid-19 yesterday.

Auckland District Health Board committed $650,000 to clear a waiting list for urgent dental care by June, but figures show there are still 1999 children on the list.

Exhausted doctors and nurses are still in the dark about when life will be back to normal more than two weeks after a massive cyber attack.

Nurses are considering a late pay offer by district health boards attempting to avoid a massive nationwide strike.