SYDNEY (Reuters) -New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has tested positive for COVID-19 and will work remotely while isolating, his office said on Sunday, just two weeks before a general ...

The arrival of the highly infectious Delta variant "does raise some big questions" about New Zealand's pandemic response, a minister has said. Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins said the ...

Announcing that the Labour Party - as distinct from the caretaker Government - would be calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict, Hipkins said that he had to speak up because there was “no ...

The ruling class is responding to the pandemic by covering up the ongoing crisis while preparing escalating attacks on the ...

Public Health Nursing Supervisor Heidi Taogoshi and Hawaii National Guard Capt. Aris Banaag discuss operations Thursday morning at UH-Maui College. The Maui District Health Office continues to ...

National leader Christopher Luxon says he would “absolutely” get a free trade deal signed with India in his first term, even though India has shown little appetite for one given its ...

England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has urged people to continue to self-isolate if they test positive for the coronavirus in the coming weeks. From Thursday, people with a positive test ...

Britain’s pandemic plans before Covid struck were “not particularly helpful” and would have been “woefully deficient” for even a flu pandemic, England’s chief medical officer has said.

A centre-right government came to power in New Zealand last week. Remember Jacinda Ardern? A prime minister who captured ...