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Bloomfield's 'very good' relationship with Clark

Dr Bloomfield says he has a 'very good' relationship with David Clark.

Isolation on the frontline: Hotel staff under strain with Covid-19 risks

Overseas arrivals leaving isolation early, staff told not to wear PPE and no danger money.

Watch: 'Spineless' - Clark throws Bloomfield under the bus, as he stands alongside

Health Minister Dr David Clark was not about to take the blame for the testing botch-ups.

Covid-19: Lockdown lifted at Rotorua's Ibis Hotel

The lockdown was lifted after 7pm after health officials deemed the hotel to be safe.

Focus Live: Two new cases of Covid-19, one in locked-down Rotorua hotel

New Zealand has two new cases of Covid-19, taking our total number of active cases to 12. Health chief Ashley Bloomfield has also confirmed there is a positive case in Rotorua following the city's Ibis Hotel being put into lockdown.

Covid-19: 'Stressed' people lining up for hours to get swab tested

Swab testing at Covid-19 stations have once again ramped up due to the confirmed cases.

Who's the idiot that let border blunders happen?

Easy to criticise Government for being too strict one day and then too lax on another.

Covid-19: Border control is 'life or death'

Leading public health expert backs the Opposition's attack on Covid-19 border controls.

Focus Live: Kiwi air crews to be tested for Covid-19

All air crew on "high risk" routes will have to stay in isolation and return a negative test before they're allowed into the community, Health Minister David Clark says.

Covid-19 latest: Two new cases today, one is a child under 2

Both were recent overseas' arrivals and were detected within managed isolation facilities.

Covid's NZ return: Top hotel's residents fight quarantine plan, Bloomfield tries to allay fears

National MPs are intervening in the Stamford apartment situation.

Two new cases of Covid-19 - a couple in their 20s; hotel CCTV to be checked

Will there be any increase in new cases after a spike in testing?

Focus Live: Two new Covid-19 cases - a couple in their 20s

New Zealand has two new cases of Covid-19. The couple are in their 20s and arrived from India on a repatriation flight from Delhi on June 5. They also have an infant, who has not been tested.

Mum frustrated after 'horrible' Covid-19 testing debacle

The mother of Whangārei woman said the ordeal had been highly frustrating

Audrey Young: A damaging deluge of debacles over Covid

COMMENT: PM may have responded well but she cannot escape the damage of the past week.

Covid-19 coronavirus: Kiwis hold key to overturning ban on exemptions, urged to speak up

Oliver Christiansen says the Government's decision is ill-considered and disproportionate.

Sailors may have entered NZ without Covid test - report

Reports of untested sailors entering Port Chalmers worry epidemiologist Sir David Skegg.

Covid-19: Quarantined man untested for a week

Questions raised about testing and security inside managed isolation for Covid.