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Explainer - A new Covid-19 variant - BA.2.86 - is causing concern over its large number of mutations. So what is being done to monitor this "radically different" variant in New Zealand?
Medical workers employed by one of the country's largest laboratory service providers will walk off the job next week, after a break down in pay talks.
New Zealand is on the back foot in preparing for new Covid-19 variants now requirements for international arrivals to test have ended, health experts say.
The Ministry of Health failed to properly estimate the Covid-19 PCR testing capacity of the country's laboratories before they were swamped by the surge of Omicron cases, an external review has found.
There have been 22,152 new community cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today, with 405 people in hospital, including 10 in intensive care.