The New Zealand Ministry of Health has confirmed two new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand related to the border as a result of recent travel from the United Kingdom. The cases are connected and the infected travellers were given special exemption to attend a funeral in New Zealand, TVNZ reports. Director-general of health Dr […]
Lockdown Continues and Pay Cuts for Parliamentarians a Possibility as NZ Battles to Contain COVID-19
Despite the positive results of New Zealand’s Level 4 lockdown, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was not making any suggestion that the 4 week lockdown period could be reduced. Now in its second week, the lockdown of 5 million New Zealanders has slowed the spread of the corovanirus but Ardern warns that, “we shouldn’t get ahead […]
New Zealand Records First COVID-19 Death, 21 Medical Staff in Self-Isolation
29 March 2019, Aotearoa. The New Zealand Ministry of Health has confirmed the country’s first death linked to COVID-19 early this morning. A woman in her seventies has died at Greymouth Hospital in the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. She is reported to have been admitted four days ago, “with what was thought […]
