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Case definition update resolves mixed messages over GPs’ swabbing for COVID-19
The door is locked, phone consults are the norm and some patients are seen in the car park – welcome to general practice in a health emergency
Fifty new cases and a school cluster as New Zealand prepares to enter a four-week COVID-19 stay-at-home
Expert advocates using COVID-19 cases’ cellphone data to accelerate and even automate tracing of their contacts
Confirmed cases as at 17 March: 81,116 in China, 97,996 outside China
AS THE WORLD throws the blanket of border closures on the flames of the coronavirus pandemic, New Zealand is still battling on with trying to stamp out sporadic cases of COVID-19
DHBs can expect public scrutiny of their care of patients with heart disease, but the performance of individual doctors will not be visible
Chris Del Mar is striving to resume his life’s work in antibiotic drug resistance after a disabling spine injury
New Zealand has a cumulative total of 155 confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases so far
Doubts raised over influenza surveillance programme because of COVID-19 pandemic