Jacinda Ardern

New Zealand's old and young are in on a decision to remove the vaccine mandate, according to a new survey.

Video / New Zealand Herald Video / New Zealand Herald 23 new covid deaths were reported today and 11,560 new community cases were reported.

ANALYSIS: The peak of the Omicron outbreak has passed, vaccine passes will no longer be mandatory, and the trans-Tasman border will re-open.

She has said the removal of vaccine passes and mandates “would not have a material impact on our hospitalisations”. But the Omicron outbreak has peaked as expected and with it the number of hospitalisations have declined. Could the Covid-19 restrictions be unwound even further? This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the outdoor gathering limits on events will go from March 26, while indoor limits will increase to 200 people. Escape will cancel and close the window. Reset restore all settings to the default valuesThis is a modal window.

New Zealand's old and young are in on a decision to remove the vaccine mandate, according to a new survey.

Video / New Zealand Herald Video / New Zealand Herald 23 new covid deaths were reported today and 11,560 new community cases were reported.

'Fred Dagg would be pleased to see his 1st choice of footwear is being worn in Parliament'

Gumboots to work." Even more so since I have kids. Video / NZ Herald

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed the lengths she went this morning to let her fiancé Clarke Gayford and daughter Neve continue sleeping as she ...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed she went to sleep this morning to put her fiancée Clark Gayford and daughter Nev as she left for work early for.

“Poor Clark was up several times with our little person, so when they both finally got some sleep at 6 a.m. and I realized that getting my shoes on would wake them up, there was only one option. To get to work Gumboots,” She said in the post, Also a picture of the gumboots she was wearing.

Chris Luxon's stuck a jibing boot into the Prime Minister after Jacinda Ardern got down and dirty heading to work this morning. Ardern revealed on social m.

“I’m surprised she’d know how to wear her red bands, to be honest. Ardern revealed on social media she had to wear muddy gumboots to Parliament to avoid waking her daughter Neve and partner Clarke Gayford. Chris Luxon's stuck a jibing boot into the Prime Minister after Jacinda Ardern got down and dirty heading to work this morning.

But Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern cautioned against people thinking the move signalled the end of Covid-19 restrictions and said mask use would remain key - even ...

"They protect you and if you're wearing a mask, you're also protecting the people around you and some of those people may not be able to wear a mask for other reasons or may need that extra protection ... because they're at higher risk." "Our preference would be for everyone to go to orange and ... we would like to see the abolition of the traffic light framework altogether." Bishop said the system was "highly confusing" and New Zealanders should be allowed to get back to "living their lives". "We were - in Auckland back when they were introduced - trying to exit a lockdown based on Delta. We knew that the impact that vaccines had on transmission was significant, and the protection they provided significant, and it was also a way of protecting the unvaccinated against high-risk environments. "We've got to normalise the practice of wearing masks inside, particularly in poorly ventilated settings, it does make a difference, it does limit the spread," he said. "Mask use continues to be a very important tool at red and orange in particular ... studies show they cut transmission risk; they make it safer for everyone."

Shifting some regions of New Zealand to the orange light setting and keeping others at red could be on the cards, the Prime Minister says ahead of Cabinet's ...

The Prime Minister will at 4pm reveal if the country is ready to relax restrictions and move to the orange traffic light setting as the death toll continues ...

Today is the last day vaccine passes are mandatory. "This will be our first wave and not our only wave. Michael Neilson is a political reporter for the New Zealand Herald

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed today that the traffic light system "absolutely" allowed for regional differences, so some areas could move to orange ...

He said people would have to wear masks as they were the rules. "This will be our first wave and not our only wave. Today is the last day vaccine passes are mandatory. Studies showed they cut transmission risk and made it safer for everyone, she said. Last week was the deadliest of the pandemic, with 122 people dying. Cabinet will review the country's traffic light settings today, with the pressure on the health system after the country's deadliest week one of the key factors in the decision.

Ardern also said some businesses, events or venues may still choose to use vaccine passes, so the Government is maintaining the infrastructure for them. Some ...

Its chief executive Julie White told 1News: "At what point do we move on would be my question. Like how long do we wait? "If they work for businesses and they don't find them a barrier to their businesses, they will keep them safer, they will keep that business safer, there's no doubt."

Russia “must answer to the world for what it has done” with atrocities in Ukraine breaching international law, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.

Russian military forces have in recent days withdrawn from areas surrounding Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, changing strategy six weeks into a full scale invasion of the country. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.Reports of war atrocities in Ukraine are "beyond reprehensible", Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Beginning of dialog window.

New Zealand is not ready to move to an orange traffic light setting, the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed. Ardern said many parts of the country.

"This will be our first wave and not our only wave. Today is the last day vaccine passes are mandatory. Ardern told RNZ people certainly shouldn't see the removal of vaccine passes as the end of Covid-19 and the end of restrictions. Speaking to TVNZ's Breakfast, she said the main consideration for Cabinet was pressure on the health system. And vaccine mandates will be limited to the health and disability, aged care, Corrections and border workforce sectors. The deaths reported today take the total number of publicly-reported deaths with Covid-19 to 405 since the pandemic began.

This livestream has finished. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is holding her weekly post-Cabinet press conference at the Beehive in Wellington.