New Zealand had been largely virus-free, excluding a small cluster of cases in February, until an infected traveller from Australia seeded ...

Jacinda Ardern said the rapid spread of the highly transmissible variant meant it was too early to lift restrictions imposed last week afte...

The discovery of a single local COVID-19 case in New Zealand was enough for the government to put the entire country into strict lockdown t...

The snap lockdown will begin at midnight tonight as authorities rush to identify the source of a single infection in largest city Auckland,...

On Wednesday, the state tightened curbs for a week on gatherings and movement in Sydney, but stopped short of a full lockdown, as fears gre...

The patient developed symptoms on Tuesday and is regarded as having been potentially infectious since Sunday, officials said. The person ha...

The nation's largest city was put into lockdown on Sunday after three unexplained cases were found in the community. It was the first lockd...

The team were confined to their rooms when the first cases emerged last week but had hoped to resume training before finishing their stint ...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Friday that New Zealand would keep its current coronavirus restrictions in place until at least mid...

Most of those cases have been found around Auckland, a city of 1.5 million people who have been asked to stay at home. Authorities are stil...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said four cases had been detected in a single family in Auckland from an unknown source.

The ministry said on April 17 that it would regard the lockdown as a force majeure and grant an extension for the lockdown period and an ad...

Gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 1.6 percent in the January-March quarter, the biggest fall since early 1991. The contraction exceeded m...

The film's crew was given special permission to fly to the country two weeks ago.

Although the coronavirus seems to affect children far less seriously than adults, many officials, teachers and parents are concerned about ...

New Zealand features prominently in the doomsday survival plans of wealthy Americans.

New Zealand is alone among its western peers in explicitly attempting to eradicate the virus. It adopted one of the strictest lockdowns in ...