Rowan Quinn

Covid-19 has reared it's ugly head again after a family from South Auckland tested positive for the disease.

Auckland has been thrown back into lockdown and all students at Papatoetoe high school… Audio

The arrival of the country's first Covid-19 vaccine is being hailed as a landmark day.

The first doses of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine are due to arrive next week, earlier than first signalled by the… Audio

New Zealand's border workers will begin being vaccinated against Covid-19 from next Saturday, with the first batch of immunisations arriving in the country within a week.

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine… Audio

The Prime Minister has just announced New Zealand's first batch of covid 19 vaccine will be arriving next week. Border workers will begin to be vaccinated from next Saturday. RNZ's Health… Audio

A managed isolation cleaner says she and her colleagues are the forgotten border workers - overlooked and underpaid for the work they're doing to keep the country safe from Covid-19.

Most cleaners… Audio

There's relief - and a few nerves - as workers on the Covid-19 frontline learn they could have a jab by the end of next month.

Medsafe has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that's already been… Audio

Two new community cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Auckland - and this morning tests results released show they are both genomically linked to the Northland case.

The two people who have… Audio

Doctors and nurses are in a race to learn how to administer Pfizer's tricky Covid-19 vaccine as a major step towards the rollout is signalled.

The government says if all goes to plan, the product… Audio

The government is being urged to stop using any managed isolation hotels that allow air to be distributed between different rooms.

A Northland woman who tested positive for Covid-19 days after she… Audio

The government has made a deal to purchase two more brands of Covid-19 vaccines, bringing the total to four. Audio

Anxious rural doctors are worried about coping with the threat of Covid-19 as people flock to small holiday settlements this summer.

Experts say as the virus surges again around many parts of the… Audio

Mental health patients are still being locked in small sparse seclusion rooms despite being told to end the practice by the end of the year.

It's five years since the United Nations Committee on… Audio

A campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of young people who make the country vulnerable to another measles outbreak has managed to immunise just 4000.

Around 300,000 people aged between 15 and… Audio

An immunisation expert is warning measles is just one plane trip away from an ugly resurgence here if the country doesn't get more young people vaccinated.

The campaign to vaccinate the hundreds of… Audio

An Auckland doctor says patients are the ones that bear the ultimate brunt of a shortage of senior doctors - with long waiting lists and worsening health.

New research from the senior doctors union… Audio

Thousands of Auckland children, many in serious pain, are having to wait up to eight months for dental treatment and the list is growing.

A new report shows the city's dental services are struggling… Audio

A new report has revealed the dire state of children's dentistry in Auckland.

It shows thousands of children are on the waiting list for serious dental work - with many are waiting for eight months… Audio

A family at the heart of the country's biggest Covid-19 cluster has described the fear and shock of coming face to face with the virus.

Auckland's August outbreak infected 179 people, sending the… Audio

A family with five people who caught Covid-19 has described their shock and fear as they dropped everything to rush into quarantine.

They were part of Auckland's August cluster where most of those… Audio