COVID-19

Expert Reactions | Published: 06 August 202006 August 2020

The Government will be testing a new Bluetooth-based contact tracing technology in Rotorua. The CovidCard is around the same size […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 21 July 202012 February 2021

Two COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to prompt an immune response, which may prevent COVID-19, in humans. The results are from the University […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 09 July 202009 July 2020

Recent escapes from managed isolation facilities have drawn attention to security and compliance among returning New Zealanders. But with many […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 07 July 202007 July 2020

Air New Zealand are temporarily suspending new international bookings to New Zealand to ensure that all arrivals can be accommodated in a managed […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 01 July 2020

As more New Zealanders continue to return from abroad, additional quarantine facilities are being set up to meet demand. A […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 23 June 202024 June 2020

The Government has announced new changes to how it tests for COVID-19 in people who work near New Zealand’s borders. […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 18 June 202002 July 2020

The SMC led an online media briefing about New Zealand’s efforts to control COVID-19 at the border. Associate Professor Patricia […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 16 June 202019 June 2020

This post was updated on 18 June. The original 16 June post is below these new comments. Another case of […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 12 June 202015 June 2020

With no active COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, the next frontier is our borders. While the concept of a ‘trans-Tasman bubble’ […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 09 June 202009 June 2020

Antarctica New Zealand is limiting its activities in the world’s only COVID-19-free continent, in an effort to keep it that […]