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Revealed: Plan to address surgery waitlists

The recommendations will be implemented this year, beginning in December.

Two new Covid variants detected in NZ, Ministry of Health keeping close eye

"We’re watching the levels of those variants closely."

Focus Morning Bulletin: 18 October, 2022

Renewed concerns over our EDs, could cost of living pressures ease and tensions between the UK's new Finance Minister and Prime Minister in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

'He was just a skeleton of a baby': Family moves to Australia to save starving infant

Gideon's body started 'eating itself' to survive - 'He was essentially starving to death.'

Nine new community cases of monkeypox

All of the new cases have been identified as community transmissions.

Doctor well-known in ADHD community faces tribunal

It is alleged Tony Hanne wrote prescriptions without specialist approval.

Impossible to measure impact of nurses' refusal to work extra shifts - union

Nurses are protesting over the end of the winter Covid-19 bonus.

9975 new Covid cases, 33 deaths in last week; nearly 10 per cent reinfections

For three weeks now, Kiwis have been living without the Covid-19 traffic light system.

'Cruel and heartless': $52k annual tax on 'miracle drug' slammed

'We will do anything to keep our boy alive but ... detest having to pay tax to do so.'

'Biggest change in a lifetime': ADHD healthcare improvements on the table

'This is a giant step forward. It's just unbelievable.'

Focus: Lights out! What NZ's new Covid rules mean for you

The Covid protection framework is no more so what does that mean for Kiwis and what should we expect from the pandemic now? Video / NZ Herald

1941 new cases, 46 deaths as daily Covid-19 updates end after two-plus years

From now on there will be weekly Covid updates every Monday.

Lights out! Covid-19 traffic light system scrapped - all you need to know

Most Covid-19 rules to end from tonight.

Live: Nine Covid-related deaths, 1483 new cases today

The nine deaths includes four people were in their 80s and five aged over 90.

1653 new Covid cases, 254 people in hospital and 12 deaths

Community cases, hospitalisations and deaths are all declining.

Focus Morning Bulletin: 8 September, 2022

Could the traffic light system’s days be numbered? Government under the microscope after border blunder and Apple’s new iPhone is here in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Focus Live: Chris Hipkins speaking on Northland Covid lockdown blunder

When asked about the blunder, former Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins claimed there was nothing new in today's reporting. Video / NZ Herald

Focus Morning Bulletin: 7 September, 2022

How a Government blunder actually sent Northland into lockdown, will a new youth crime package actually work? And the mystery continues over the body found in a burnt out car in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald