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[ad_1] A spokesperson for the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) says that anyone who has attended the same Les Mills classes as the person with COVID-19 is a close contact and is at increased risk of getting sick. “We ask these people to stay home and contact Healthline at …

[ad_1] A person with Covid-19 visited an Auckland gym and two supermarkets, prompting health officials to advise other people who visited North Shore locations to stay home. The Auckland Regional Public Health Service said Sunday night that the person visited Les Mills Gym in Takapuna, Countdown Milford and The Warehouse …

[ad_1] A church leader at the center of Auckland’s August coronavirus cluster and the second lockdown says science has a place in society, but it wouldn’t do things differently next time. Speaking to Stuff on Sunday, Kelly Vogel rejected claims that Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship was secretive and said Auckland …

[ad_1] Two new cases of coronavirus were reported on Sunday, one of which was a health worker at an Auckland quarantine facility. It is the first time that a healthcare worker at the Jet Park Hotel has tested positive for Covid-19 since it began operating as a quarantine facility nearly …

[ad_1] A man whose spleen had to be removed after an accident during surgery faces an increased risk of contracting coronavirus, but says ACC will not support him. Tony Stout lives in a trailer park in Richmond and said the medical misadventure left him with compromised immunity and an increased …

[ad_1] By RNZ Auckland residents will learn tomorrow whether the tighter alert level restrictions will be maintained or if they will have more freedom to assemble, but a public health expert is urging officials to keep the city at current alert levels for now. Compared to the rest of the …

[ad_1] Paige Nicholson, 27, remembers falling out of unconsciousness, shaking in her bed and not being able to stand up. “It took all my energy to yell at my dad for help.” It was a cold July morning when the then 25-year-old nearly died of sepsis, also known as blood …

[ad_1] Two new cases of coronavirus were reported on Sunday, one of which was a health worker at an Auckland quarantine facility. It is the first time that a member of staff at the Jet Park Hotel has tested positive for Covid-19 since it began operating as a quarantine facility …

[ad_1] Prevention measures and the use of PPE at the Jet Park Hotel are being reviewed after a worker tested positive, the first case in the five and a half months that the quarantine facility has been operating. The worker was one of two new cases of Covid-19 reported today …

[ad_1] Smoke from wildfires that posed a health hazard to millions of people suffocated the west coast of the United States on Saturday as firefighters battled deadly fires that swept through some cities and displaced tens of thousands of people, the latest of one series of calamities this year. For …