Flu vaccine delays add pressure as GPs ramp up for Pfizer vaccine
New Zealand has low levels of flu but the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble could bring the virus in while
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Covid experts’ warning for transtasman travellers
Professor Shaun Hendy, of Te Punaha Matatini, said the April 19 opening of the long-awaited bubble marked a “significant milestone”
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Coronavirus Likely Originated in Animals: WHO Report
The findings are based largely on a WHO team’s visit earlier this year to Wuhan, the Chinese city where COVID-19
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Sweeping review of vaccine booking systems
The review of the various systems being used by DHBs, developed by the company Valentia Technologies, comes as the ministry
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Diabetes to cost NZ $3.5b a year by 2040
Researchers of The Economic and Social Cost of Type 2 Diabetes report – launched in Parliament today – are warning
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Nursing shortage bites Counties Manukau DHB
The shortages were highlighted during the parliamentary health select committee’s annual review of the DHB on Wednesday. Chief nurse Jenny
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S. African Variant Challenges Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines
In the study, 10 blood samples were taken from people who received the Pfizer vaccine, 28 days after the second
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Focus Live: No new Covid-19 community cases but ‘we’re not out of the woods’
Bloomfield said the lack of new cases was encouraging but stressed “we’re not out of the woods”. There were 8880
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Vaccinations begin at Port of Tauranga
Bay of Plenty District Health Board’s Covid-19 response manager Helen de Vere, said the first day of vaccinations went well
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Masks Vital to Stopping COVID at Gyms
“This outbreak reinforces the need for combined COVID-19 prevention strategies, including universal mask use in public settings when persons are
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