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Focus Live: 19,566 new Covid-19 community cases, ten deaths

March 17 2022 There are 19,566 new community cases of Covid-19 and 930 people in hospital, including 23 in intensive care. Ten Covid-related deaths were announced today.

PM on Covid mandates, vaccine passes - are they coming to an end?

Mandates and vaccine passes are unlikely to be used as widely as before.

'Utterly distraught': 41yo dad of four dies after testing positive for Covid; Coroner says cause 'inconclusive'

A Givealittle page is raising funds to support Daryl Saunders' wife and four children.

Focus Live: PM Jacinda Ardern on Covid-19, vaccine passes

March 17 2022 Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says mandates and vaccine passes are unlikely to be used as widely as before and Cabinet will review traffic light settings next week.

Trump's old stomping ground now open for free tours

After being shuttered for over a year, this landmark is back open to the public.

Live: Covid deaths soar to 141; Bloomfield defends isolation rules, says health system staff 'feeling pressure'

Yesterday, 19,452 community cases, 971 hospitalisations and 24 deaths were reported.

Why New Zealand is not really welcoming the rest of the world

Families doomed to further separation by Government's border call.

The region where kids make up a third of Covid hospitalisations

But children often responded 'quickly' to treatment, the board says.

Exclusive: Exhausted nurses 'falling over each other' for nightly $500 Covid bonus

'We are so short staffed in every department that management are working on the floor.'

New Zealand to welcome international tourists from April

New Zealand is finally ready to reconnect to the world.

Focus Live: PM Jacinda Ardern announces border re-opening dates

March 16 2022 Vaccinated Australians will be able to come to New Zealand without isolating from 11.59pm on April 12. Fully vaccinated travellers from visa-waiver countries will be able to enter the country from 11.59pm on May 2.

NSW records major spike with more than 20,000 new cases

NSW has recorded more than 30,000 new Covid cases, as new Omicron variant spreads rapidly.

'Nearly a million' more RATs for schools - Hipkins

It will allow more schools to stay safe and open through the Omicron peak, Hipkins says.

NZ reopens to the world - the new date tourists can start returning

It comes as the Omicron outbreak appears to near its peak overall.

Focus Morning Bulletin: 16 March, 2022

Vaxxed tourists to hit our shores next month, National looks to appoint new finance minister and Kyiv imposes curfew in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

China's Covid lockdowns add chaos to global supply chains

New York Times: Lockdowns and restrictions snarling already frayed supply chains.

UK abandons all Covid-19 travel rules for arrivals

People will be able to "travel just like in the good old days," says transport secretary.

Reports of first Covid death in Vanuatu

There are now a total of 341 cases since the beginning of 2022.