The Ministry of Health welcomes the publication of the NZ Royal Commission COVID-19 Lessons Learned Final Report, and the opportunity to strengthen our preparation for a future pandemic.

The 500-plus-page report looks at what it calls some of the "most difficult and divisive responses around vaccines and ...

Six years after New Zealand moved into its first lockdown, the final inquiry report examines lockdowns, mandates and the cost of the pandemic.

Six years after COVID-19 first reached New Zealand, the country is experiencing its ninth wave of infections. But the virus we are living with today behaves very differently from the one that caused ...

"We got a lot right. More than most," the former PM and Grant Robertson say, while Simeon Brown says warnings about the ...

A commission said the country is still grappling with the long-term consequences of both the pandemic and the policy response ...