There is one new case of COVID-19 in managed isolation and no new community cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today. The new case is a person who arrived in Auckland on 19 October from the United Kingdom, via Kuala Lumpur on flight EK 448
New Zealand’s public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic may be the envy of the world, but as the new government looks ahead, potentially with a more progressive lens, it will have to face several challenges in the health sector
Havelock North GP Alison Goodwin raises questions about the cost of the country’s plan for dealing the pandemic. Dr Goodwin is a signatory to a statement released today by a group of doctors about ‘COVID fear’
A group of New Zealand health practitioners have joined a growing international movement that says COVID-19 is not a sufficient threat to warrant the elimination strategy and lockdowns
There are again no new community cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today. There are five new cases from managed isolation. One other case has now recovered, meaning the total number of active cases is 74
There are no new community cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today. One case from managed isolation, which was under further investigation yesterday, has been reclassified as a confirmed case which has now recovered
The metro Auckland DHBs (Waitematā, Auckland and Counties Manukau) are boosting COVID-19 testing capacity and community access to testing over the long Labour weekend, 24-26 October
Residents of Timaru, and surrounding districts are about to get access to free bowel screening with South Canterbury District Health Board joining the National Bowel Screening Programme
There are nine new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today. Eight of these cases have been detected in our managed isolation facilities and one is a household contact connected to the marine employee cluster, who was already in self isolation
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management