Health

[ad_1] Six historical cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in New Zealand today, all linked to Waikato, meaning that the first confirmed case of Covid-19 coronavirus in the country dates back to earlier than previously reported. The historical cases include one confirmed case and five probable cases, none of which …

[ad_1] A high-impact collision in the front of a Hawke’s Bay store left three people seriously injured and a store owner stunned by the damage. Three people remained in serious condition at Hawke’s Bay Hospital Wednesday afternoon after the early morning crash, at Panache Soft Furnishings in Mayfair, around 12:44 …

[ad_1] Labor is talking about its chances of breaking National’s more than decade-long hold on Hamilton. The two women vying for prime minister returned to Waikato on Wednesday for campaign visits that included a bit of politics and a healthy slice of political star power. Jacinda Ardern, on her first …

[ad_1] A father accused of killing his young son in a burning car accident walked into a Christchurch police station, stripped off his clothes, and pleaded for imprisonment. Niklas Gebhardt (30) was charged with manslaughter after his 6-year-old son Lachlan Gebhardt was killed in an accident at the bend of …

[ad_1] The Ministry of Health has established a panel of experts to find the best way to treat cases where people give what is called a weak positive result when tested for Covid-19. One of those cases was that of the former Stuff reporter Tom Kitchin, now working for Radio …

[ad_1] Colmar Brunton’s poll yesterday for TVNZ saw the Act creep towards its best election result, at 7 percent. With that, the one-man gang would become a club of nine led by Seymour. Who the hell are they? By now, David Seymour must be among our most recognized political figures. …

[ad_1] A former adviser to former National Party leader Todd Muller says Judith Collins should have been promoted to leadership earlier and calls Simon Bridges the “most unpopular high-ranking political figure in the English-speaking world.” Political commentator Matthew Hooton was one of Muller’s first advocates to roll Bridges, after a …

[ad_1] Its track record in eliminating Covid-19 and controlling a second outbreak has drawn praise for New Zealand around the world. Now the center-left Labor party, led by the popularly popular Jacinda Ardern, faces an election bolstered by its success in containing the virus, but darkened by the shadow of …

[ad_1] The US government has executed a former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to kill a Georgia nurse who he believed had bewitched him. William Emmett LeCroy, 50, was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m. (local time) after receiving a lethal injection at the same US prison …

[ad_1] Three passengers, including a child, who were traveling on a charter flight with a man who tested positive for coronavirus more than a week after leaving controlled isolation, contracted the virus. On Wednesday a girl between the ages of 1 and 4, a woman in her 20s and a …