Health Minister David Clark has revealed that he took a trip to the beach during the alert level 4 lockdown and has offered to resign. Clark said he drove his family 20km from his house in Dunedin to Doctor’s Point Beach for a walk during the first weekend of the lockdown in breach of the […]

The Southern DHB is stressing the importance of people advising of COVID-19 symptoms when they are being admitted to hospital, so precautions can be taken to safeguard hospital staff and other patients. This follows an incident at Southland Hospital last week where a patient, who has since tested po

Your ears did not deceive you, the distinctive roar of jet engines was heard again over Invercargill last night. The same jet aircraft that was chartered on a medi-vac mission again made a round trip from Auckland to Invercargill and return. The Hawker-Beechcraft aircraft was also used on a medi-vac

Today the Ministry of Health released the latest confirmed Covid-19 case numbers for the Southern DHB area. There are now 51 confirmed cases in Clutha/Gore/Invercargill/Southland, up eight from yesterday New cases compared to yesterday are Invercargill up 8 (35), no change Clutha (5), Gore (2) or So

The Southland Museum and Art Gallery (SMAG) Trust Board at its meeting on April 2 resolved to publicly release museum consultant Tim Walker’s report entitled Reinventing the Southland Museum. The report was received by the SMAG board in June 2019 but was not released due to several factors, includin

Watch: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is addressing media after a meeting of Cabinet on the level 4 national response to the Covid-19 outbreak. There are 39 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 28 new probable cases in New Zealand, bringing the country to a total of 1106, the Health Ministry announced

The All of Government COVID-19 National Response will provide an update at 1.00 pm today. Watch live stream (BELOW) of the update will be available on this page at 1.00 pm. Speakers: Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health – health update There are 39 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 28

There have been reports by other media and comments on social media, that a patient with COVID-19 has been admitted to the Critical Care Unit at Southland Hospital. whatsoninvers.nz asked Southern DHB for comment. The response from the Southland Hospital EOC Controller, Jo McLeod is as follows: Whil