Covid 19

Levin residents who have heard from Winston Peters on the campaign trail are betting he will be back in the Beehive before long, and say they want to see him champion the issues others will not.

Covid infections are putting people at higher risk of diabetes, strokes, heart disease and other long-term illnesses - but experts warn it may be decades before the full impact is known.

Opinion - Interventions to decrease the rate of Covid infections are sensible, but not at any cost, a group of academics write. Here's what the science shows us about protection strategies.

A petition demanding the Ministry of Social Development claw back billions of dollars in Covid-19 wage subsidies has got more than 10,000 signatures.

Britain's government is refusing to hand over internal WhatsApp messages to a public inquiry into its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

School attendance improved dramatically in term one, weekly figures show.

The World Health Organisation's decision to remove Covid-19 as a global health emergency is the right move, epidemiologist Michael Baker says.

It is time to 'de-prioritise' the response to Covid 19, which will now be no worse than the flu for the majority of the population, an epidemiologist says. Audio

Tight reins on pay increases for thousands of public servants are expected to ease within days.

The Detail talks to journalist Chen Liu about returning to China after three years of border closures.

There has been much debate about the real number of Covid-19 deaths in China, after the virus ripped through its megacities.

The rapid dismantling of the zero-tolerance policy "feels weird", writes BBC News reporter Stephen McDonell in Beijing.

Fiji has announced it has detected the XBB.1.5 variant of Covid-19.

Two Covid-19 cases have been found to have the XBB.1.5 variant, also known as 'Kraken'.

A new strain XBB.1.5, nicknamed 'Kraken', is spreading rapidly across the globe.

The Ministry of Health said it received 1863 reports of positive cases on Sunday.

The government has identified individuals and groups in line to receive a special honour for their role in fighting Covid-19.

Today's Covid-19 case numbers are the highest in a week - but still significantly less than a peak earlier this month.

The Papua New Guinea's national pandemic deputy controller says there is a surge of Covid-19 cases in the country.