Mike Sanford

The All of Government COVID-19 National Response will provide an update at 1.00 pm today. Speaker: Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield is giving the latest update on Covid-19 cases in New Zealand and the government’s response. Live update: Th

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Today the Ministry can report 19 new cases of COVID-19, made up of 15 new confirmed cases and four new probable cases. There are now 546 reported cases of COVID-19 infection which we can confirm have recovered – an increase of 75 on yesterday. We continue to report more people recovered than new cas

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield are giving the update. Yesterday, Bloomfield announced New Zealand had another 18 cases of Covid-19, the lowest daily number in three weeks. The total number of confirmed and probable cases in the country is 1330, whil

Businesses should continue filing their tax returns, even if they cannot make the payments, so the IRD can keep track. Under laws quickly passed before the country entered alert level four, Inland Revenue has the power to write off interest accrued on tax payments due on or after February 14. It has

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it “could have gone either way” as he thanked healthcare workers for saving his life after being discharged from hospital. Boris Johnson participates in a national ‘clap for carers’ in the doorway of 10 Downing Street on April 2, 2020. Johnson, 55, was taken

Yesterday, there were 29 new confirmed and probable cases, bringing the total cases in the country to 1312, while two more deaths were announced. Both of the deaths were linked to an identified cluster. The deaths include a man in his 80s who died at Wellington Hospital and a man in his 70s who died

New Zealand exported sheepmeat and beef worth $921 million in February with the value largely unchanged from a year earlier despite COVID-19, according to the latest figures from the Meat Industry Association (MIA). The impact of COVID-19 saw the value of exports to China drop by 45 per cent to $175