COVID-19

Two Countdown pharmacies in Wellington will close their doors later this week due to the worsening workforce shortage

By mid-November, pharmacy owners across the country found themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place as the COVID-19 vaccination mandate came into effect and some employees were unable to return to their workplace

Hunting for variants requires a concerted effort. South Africa and the UK were the first big countries to implement nationwide genomic surveillance efforts for SARS-CoV-2 as early as April 2020

Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand president Rhiannon Braund says PSNZ will keep the pharmacist profession informed as details are worked out of the new government plan to use pharmacies for rapid COVID testing from December 15

Community pharmacy staff were taken aback this morning by the announcement that from 15 December they will be providing rapid COVID-19 testing to the public

Community pharmacies have administered nearly 300,000 COVID vaccines in the past month 

Some recent studies have shown similar peak viral loads in vaccinated people compared to unvaccinated people who contract COVID. This has raised concerns for the efficacy of vaccines for preventing transmission

Health Navigator NZ’s  new collection of free local resources for COVID-19-positive people are aimed at simplifying difficult concepts and supporting those isolating at home 

Church Street Dispensary in Ōpōtiki, located the Eastern Bay of Plenty, is on a small but mighty mission to play their part in getting the town vaccinated – and they’re using an extra sweet incentive to get punters through the door

Unichem Mackays Pharmacy in Stratford was notified today that it had been visited on three separate days this week by COVID-positive people