COVID-19

There are seven new confirmed cases of COVID-19 to report in the community today. There are no new cases to report in managed isolation

Studies of the SARS-CoV-2 genome have indicated one of the main strains is more infectious than others, but it isn’t clear why it is becoming dominant 

A government decision to distribute five million face masks to Countdown and various social agencies, but not pharmacies, is being described as a slap in the face for the pharmacy sector

Pharmacy, you’ve done this before, you can do it again, says Pharmaceutical Society president Ian McMichael as the country once again faces lockdown

University of Otago researchers have learnt more about how viruses operate and can evade the immune system and are now using their discovery to help learn more about COVID-19

Pharmacy Today reporter Anna Lee spent nearly five hours in a queue at a COVID-19 testing centre on a day when four cases of community transmission forced Aucklanders to show up in droves

In a scene reminiscent of the pre-lockdown panic buying of late March, queues outside pharmacies began lengthening down the street as pharmacists scrambled to meet customer demand for dispensing and OTC products

Expert reaction from Science Media Centre to COVID-19 Alert Level 3 announcement

The Prime Minister has announced four confirmed cases of COVID-19 in one family from an unknown source

An Auckland pharmacy is struggling to survive after most of its patients unexpectedly vanished four months ago, and didn’t come back