Covid Watch

MPs Megan Woods and Mark Mitchell joined Mike Hosking to wrap the week's political news.

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I’m pleased midwives are asking for justification of the ongoing Covid vaccine mandate, surely we need to let it go by now.

Surely it’s not even relevant anymore, in a world where we are learning to live with Covid, where we are gaining herd immunity...

Do we need to follow in the footsteps of Australia when it comes to long Covid?

The Australian Government are developing a national plan to respond to the effects of long Covid as estimates show about 4 percent of patients experience long term...

I mentioned yesterday, with the return of cruise ships to our now fully open border, who’d be game enough to get on a cruise? The horror of those ships stuck like floating prisons when in the early days of Covid people got stuck on them unable to...

A spring in the step of tourism businesses today, with New Zealand's border now fully open for the first time in more than two years.

All visa categories are open for travellers from anywhere -- and cruise ships can return.

Tourism Industry Aotearoa...

It’s felt like a long time coming, but from tonight New Zealand will again open its door to the rest of the world. 

Our borders open to all visitors from 11.59 tonight. 

It will come as a very welcome relief for our struggling tourism industry, but...

National, the Greens, ACT and a former Reserve Bank chairman are calling for a public inquiry into the Reserve Bank's response to Covid.

It comes after Graeme Wheeler says central banks made serious errors in wake of the pandemic which now need to be...

A regional visitor levy is back on the cards to cover the costs of tourism on small communities as borders fully re-open on Sunday.

The proposal was a common theme in new destination management plans written by regional tourism organisations following...

The tourism sector is bracing for the long-awaited return of international cruise ships.The maritime border re-opens on Monday, with the Pacific Explorer set to be the first to arrive at Auckland's Queens Wharf from Brisbane on August 12.The official...

Te Papa is collecting relics of our very recent past.

The national museum has been adding momentoes from the Covid-19 pandemic to its long-term collection.

Among them are concrete barriers, tennis balls thrown at journalists during the anti-mandate...