Tag: Omicron

By Adele White, chairperson Howick Local Board Kia ora! The Howick Local Board continues to hold workshops and business meetings online with a view to...

By Naisi Chen, Labour List MP based in Botany Over the weekend, I saw something exciting around east Auckland. It was happening in the cafes...

By Adele White, chairperson Howick Local Board Kia ora! At this time, it seems Omicron has hit many families in our area. It is good to...

By Simeon Brown, MP for Pakuranga The Government's failure to clearly state any sort of timeline for when Covid-19 restrictions and mandates can be...

If you are symptomatic or a household contact, you can now order rapid antigen tests (RATs) through the newly launched RAT requester site www.requestrats.covid19.health.nz. Acting...

The latest Real Estate Institute of New Zealand report indicates a spike of median house prices last month. The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand...

The High Court's decision released on Friday that vaccine mandates for police officers and defence force personnel are unlawful and not justified must be...

The Ministry of Health has announced there are 6137 community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today, with 205 Covid patients in hospital and...

  Only confirmed cases and their household contacts required to isolate All other contacts now asked to monitor symptoms but do not have to...

By Simeon Brown, MP for Pakuranga Even as Omicron continues to spread throughout our communities, Kiwis are becoming more concerned with the cost of...

The Government should begin removing vaccine mandates progressively once we are through the peak of Omicron, National Leader Christopher Luxon said in a speech...

By Naisi Chen, Labour list MP based in Botany Last week the current Howick Police Station closed while the search for a new site...

MINISTRY OF HEALTH UPDATE February 15, 2022   The Big Boost Week continues to see tens of thousands of people going out to get their booster dose...

New exemption scheme established with aim of keeping critical supply chains running Close contacts can keep going to work instead of isolating if...

MINISTRY OF HEALTH UPDATE January 28, 2022 The West Coast has become the 17th DHB to fully vaccinate more than 90% of its residents with two doses. Yesterday...

MINISTRY OF HEALTH UPDATE January 27, 2022 Canterbury has become the third DHB to fully vaccinate more than 90% of eligible Māori. More than four million first...

By Naisi Chen, Labour list MP based in Botany On Sunday night, the whole of New Zealand moved into the Red Covid-19 Protection Framework...

Like many other organisations, Auckland Council is preparing for how widespread community transmission of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 might affect its services, service...

MINISTRY OF HEALTH UPDATE January 21, 2022 New Zealand’s vaccine rollout remains our key defence against all variants of Covid-19, including Omicron. There were 37,967 boosters administered yesterday, bringing...

The Government is unprepared to tackle the challenge presented by the Omicron strain of Covid-19 and is developing its response "on the fly". That's the...

MINISTRY OF HEALTH UPDATE January 20, 2022 Today, we are reporting 12,057 first doses of the paediatric Pfizer vaccine administered yesterday to 5 to 11-year-olds, bringing...