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A long-awaited cervical screening test that women can do themselves and will reduce the need for smear test will be funded by the government.

Risk posed to NZ by Sydney Covid-19 community cases 'low' - Bloomfield © RNZ / Sam Rillstone The risk posed to New Zealand by a community outbreak of Covid-19 in Sydney is low, but health authorities chose to pause travel between the two locations because there are a "few unknowns". It comes after the New South Wales government announced it was re-introducing a raft of restrictions for Greater Sydney after the state recorded a second new locally-acquired Covid-19 case. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield told Morning Report it was "good that they have been able to link these tw...

Covid-19 vaccines planned for all over-16s by 2022 - Verrall © RNZ / Sam Rillstone Associate Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall says the government has a clear plan to ensure that everyone aged 16 and over will be vaccinated by the end of the year. "We are progressing well against the plan," Dr Verrall said at today's Covid-19 update, alongside Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield. DHBs were on track to deliver more than 1 million doses by the end of June, she said. "By then we'll be well into vaccinating the 1.7 million people we've identified in group 3 ... those over 65, people wi...

Police had no dedicated team to scan Internet before mosque attacks Phil Pennington It took seven months for police to set up their first team for scanning the internet after the mosque attacks - but it was almost immediately in danger of being shut down. An internal report released under the Official Information Act (OIA) said this was despite the team already proving its worth "many times over" in countering violent extremists. The unit still does not have dedicated funding, despite a warning last July it risked being "turned off". This is revealed in 170 pages of OIA docume...

Collins on Bridges' wokester jibe: 'I wouldn't call someone that' © RNZ / Samuel Rillstone National Party leader Judith Collins says justice spokesperson Simon Bridges should direct criticism to ministers not the police commissioner, who he labelled a "wokester". The party's justice spokesperson, Simon Bridges, called Police Commissioner Andrew Coster "our wokester commissioner" in response to a police operation targeting guns held by organised crime groups and gangs. © RNZ / Sam Rillstone, Dom Thomas On Tuesday he doubled down on his criticism saying there had been multiple occasions whe...