Health

[ad_1] New Zealand labs run a staggering number of Covid-19 tests every day. With our total count approaching the 1 million mark, labs across the country are processing just over 5,000 samples daily. As the Auckland outbreak showed, it could quickly escalate to 20,000, but it was grueling and painstaking …

[ad_1] This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and republished with permission. Geneticist Neil Gemmell is calling for a system to monitor wastewater for potential Covid-19 clusters and carriers of the disease. It is part of a national group led by the Institute for Environmental Science and Research that has …

[ad_1] This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and republished with permission. Geneticist Neil Gemmell is calling for a system to monitor wastewater for potential Covid-19 clusters and carriers of the disease. It is part of a national group led by the Institute for Environmental Science and Research that has …

[ad_1] DONALD TRUMP / TWITTER US President Donald Trump in a video posted on Twitter at noon Sunday (NZT) from Walter Reed Military Hospital. US President Donald Trump has released a new video of the hospital in which he says he is starting to feel better and hopes to “be …

[ad_1] DAVID WHITE / Things Cordons were quickly placed around Jellicoe Park, Manurewa, after a man’s body was discovered Saturday night. Residents near a park where a man was found dead Saturday night said they heard screaming, fighting and people fleeing the scene shortly before police arrived. Police have launched …

[ad_1] There is growing confusion about the condition of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, today, as his doctors and the White House provide conflicting information about the world’s highest-profile coronavirus patient. Doctors treating Trump, led by White House physician Dr. Sean Conley, held a press conference in …

[ad_1] The Ministry of Health is ready to update New Zealand on the latest number of Covid-19 cases at 1pm today. It comes before Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces tomorrow whether Auckland is ready to return to alert level 1. Any decision will not take effect until Wednesday, he said. …

[ad_1] United States President Donald Trump’s surprising Covid-19 diagnosis serves as a cruel reminder of the widespread spread of the coronavirus and the country’s tenuous control over the crisis, health experts say. With infections rising in the United States over several weeks, Trump was one of roughly 40,000 Americans who …

[ad_1] Warning: graphic content When you have to go, you have to go. But a man’s urge to defecate has made him lose his job and his right to a fair job. Western Australian man Anthony Lear, who pooped at his workplace twice, lost a dramatic fair job lawsuit against …

[ad_1] A young woman from Tuvalu will give birth to her second child in Rotorua in two weeks, 3700 kilometers from her husband and home, after Covid-19 border closures trapped her in New Zealand while doing seasonal work. Takeisi Laki arrived in New Zealand in March to work the apple …