New Zealand welcomes Australian visitors with warm hugs, tears and Maori performers

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sought to cool simmering resentment over the slow unlocking of the country's pandemic restrictions on Thursday, a day after police cleared a weeks-long Canada-style protest outside parliament.

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern faces resentment over slow unlocking of pandemic restrictions

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

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

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 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