COVID-19

The Fono West Dispensary Plus Pharmacy has launched a free Auckland-wide delivery service to ensure the timely delivery of prescription medication for vulnerable patients during COVID-19

Six New Zealand pharmacies closed following the start of COVID-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown but three have since reopened, the Ministry of Health has revealed

New Zealand moved to Alert Level 2 on 14 May, but for the majority of ­pharmacies not much changed.  

Unichem Wyndham Street co-owner and business manager Zahra Tabar likens the “dramatic” last three months to a Hollywood movie

No pharmacists have been infected with COVID-19 during the pandemic so far, figures from the Ministry of Health show

When Dunedin-based clinical pharmacists Angela Renall, Melissa Copland and Sonia Cox turned up to work on 19 March, they had no idea that just a few hours later they would be nasally swabbing for COVID-19

The COVID-19 lockdown has been a stressful time for all New Zealanders and doubly so for many residents with English as a second language

In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary

Fiona Cassie wanted to know what happens to the thousands of nasal swabs that are sent away for analysis each day. The Southern Community Laboratories experts who answered her questions are clinical microbiologist Arlo Upton, molecular pathology department head Jenny Grant and clinical microbiologist James Ussher 

Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā – the Māori Pharmacists’ Association
– outlines its actions to help Māori during the pandemic lockdown and its aftermath