Mike Houlahan

Daily Southern Covid-19 case numbers have passed 1200 and Otago and Southland are nearing the peak of the outbreak. Mike Houlahan talks to the SDHB's Covid planning lead Hywel Lloyd about what to expect in the next few weeks.

Fixing the multitude of air conditioning problems preventing the opening of the extension to Dunedin Hospital’s intensive care unit will cost $2.5 million, the Southern DHB says.

A refrigerator will likely be the main focus of an investigation into how 1571 southerners received Covid-19 vaccinations of doubtful effectiveness.

A record day for Covid cases and hospitalisations in the South should be a warning of the seriousness of the disease, a young woman who has spent time in hospital with the virus says.

Leading British neurosurgeons, including the president of the British Neurosurgical Society, are bewildered New Zealand medical authorities have declined to register a former colleague to work at Dunedin Hospital.