New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tested positive for COVID-19 with moderate symptoms, her office said in a statement on Saturday. She will not be in parliament for the government's emissions reduction plan on Monday and the budget on Thursday, but "travel arrangements for her trade mission to the United States are unaffected at this stage," the statement said.

COVID-19: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tests positive for infection

A man in New Zealand has reportedly taken ten vaccine shots in a day as the country's health ministry launched an investigation into the incident. Reports claimed the man visited several vaccination centres to get the jabs.

Man in New Zealand takes 10 vaccine shots in a day

A few weeks after the coronavirus surge in New Zealand, the country has managed to vaccinate 2.5 per cent of its population within a single day. This was a record number of coronavirus vaccines administered to locals in the country.

COVID-19: New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% population in one day

According to New Zealand health officials, a woman died after she was administered the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. The country's health ministry said an independent COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring board had concluded that the woman’s death was due to myocarditis which is a rare side effect of the Pfizer vaccine.

New Zealand reports first death linked to Pfizer vaccine

After recording more than 300 new coronavirus cases within a week, New Zealand has decided to extend the lockdown for four more days. As the country recorded 70 new cases in the past 24 hours, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the lockdown will be extended till Tuesday midnight.

New Zealand to extend lockdown for four days as Covid cases increase

Anti-lockdown rallies have become a common sight all over the world, but for the first some, a country witnessed a demonstration in which people preferred to stay indoors.

One-person rally against Covid lockdown in New Zealand

New Zealand on Tuesday recorded the highest jump in coronavirus since last year recording 41 new COVID-19 cases. Auckland which has become the new epicentre of the virus recorded 38 cases with thee cases reported in Wellington.

New Zealand reports highest increase in COVID-19 cases since April last year

New Zealand reported 21 new coronavirus cases just days after it imposed a lockdown putting its "Covid zero" strategy in doubt. Auckland reported 20 cases with at least 5 people hospitalised as the lockdown was extended until midnight set to last till next Tuesday.

New Zealand: Coronavirus cases rise amid lockdown; Auckland worst-hit

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered a snap three-day lockdown in New Zealand after the country recorded the first case of locally transmitted coronavirus case in six months.

New Zealand PM Ardern orders snap three-day national lockdown after virus case

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared on Thursday that the country will keep its borders closed this year amid the coronavirus pandemic and would look to reopen in 2022 in a phased manner.

International travel update: New Zealand to keep borders closed this year; phased reopening in 2022

One of the favourite leaders of the world, Jacinda Ardern, was hailed for leading New Zealand quickly out of the coronavirus pandemic and has been appreciated for several of her policies.

Jacinda Ardern's popularity dips as vaccine rollout in New Zealand slows down

The coronavirus pandemic has been tough for everyone around the world. While many people slipped below the poverty line, others lost their loved ones. Similarly, in New Zealand, thousands of children have been pushed towards poverty, a study has revealed.

New Zealand: More than 18,000 children pushed into poverty due to Covid, report claims

As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked people to "live with" coronavirus, his New Zealand counterpart, Jacinda Ardern, has dismissed any plans of following this plan.

New Zealand will not follow UK's 'live with Covid' policy: Jacinda Ardern

New Zealand on Thursday temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India following a surge in COVID-19 cases arriving from there, local media reported. The ban comes after it was reported that 17 of the 23 new COVID-19 cases in managed isolation announced on Thursday had arrived from India.

New Zealand suspends entry for travellers from India amid COVID-19 spike

In a bid to help the government meet the costs of managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ), the New Zealand government has doubled the time the returning citizens are required to stay to avoid the massive quarantine fee.

Jacinda Ardern increases quarantine fee; New Zealand citizens question her empathy

Auckland, New Zealand’s biggest city, emerged on Sunday from a strict weeklong lockdown imposed after a community cluster of the more contagious UK coronavirus variant.

New Zealand's Auckland emerges from weeklong coronavirus lockdown

Air New Zealand will trial a digital travel pass to give airlines and border authorities access to passenger health information, including their Covid-19 vaccination status, the carrier said Monday.

Air New Zealand to trial digital Covid 'vaccination passport'

A few days after the New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, imposed a snap lockdown in Auckland, she has decided to lift the 'stay-at-home' order. Ardern, on Wednesday, announced that she is confident the deadly coronavirus has ended and has therefore decided to lift the lockdown from its largest city, Auckland.

New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern ends snap lockdown in Auckland

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed the highly-contagious strain first found in the UK was detected in Auckland which was put under a lockdown on Sunday.

New Zealand confirms first case of UK variant amid Auckland lockdown

After almost a month, New Zealand has reported three new local coronavirus cases, making them the first since January. New Zealand has been subjecting all incoming travellers to hotel quarantine, which has helped the government decrease the cases.

Three new coronavirus cases reported in New Zealand, first since January

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern said today that the county may close its border for most part of the year amid the global vaccine rollout. Watch: "Given the risks in the world around us and the uncertainty of the global rollout of a vaccine, we can expect our borders to be impacted for much of this year," Ardern said.

New Zealand may keep its borders closed for much of 2021 amid pandemic

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern`s government is to declare a climate emergency in a symbolic step to increase pressure for action to combat global warming.

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern set to declare climate emergency

Jacinda Ardern, the newly elected Prime Minister of New Zealand on Sunday said that she sees the election result as an endorsement of her government’s efforts to stamp out the coronavirus and reboot the economy.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern credits coronavirus response for election win

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party overwhelmingly won the country's general election on Saturday. The mandate implies Ardern, 40, could form the first single-party government in decades, and face the challenge of delivering on the progressive transformation she promised but failed to deliver in her first term, where Labour shared power with a nationalist party.

Jacinda Ardern wins landslide re-election in New Zealand vote; opposition concedes