A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

Interim results from the Long COVID Registry.

Cheaper public transport in Christchurch meant more people on lower incomes had more money for everyday essentials, including food, a new study...

Taxpayers' Union claims about Ōamaru's event centre build are the work of a group that is “out of touch with real people's lives”, the district council says.

A new Oxford University study found that the duration of an encounter with a person sick with COVID was as important as the distance kept from them.

Long COVID is not just destroying people's health. Behind closed doors, in homes across Australia and abroad, it is irreversibly changing relationships — sometimes for the better, too often for wor...

1News Reporter Joy Reid describes her difficult journey back to health and the strain it puts on her family.

Researchers have pinpointed a potential common link to the varying symptoms of long COVID and specific testing could solve the mystery.

Group of four men in their 20s and 30s struggled to find accommodation in Calgary while training for the 2026 Winter Olympics until an unlikely solution was offered When the clock strikes 2pm on Friday at the Chartwell Colonel Belcher retirement residence in Calgary, Alberta, something unusual happens. As the octogenarians gather to enjoy beer and wine during happy hour, they are joined by the youthful faces of New Zealand’s men’s curling team. About 12,000km from home and unable to find a place to stay when they arrived in Canada, the men were offered an apartment at Belcher and have been happily settling in to the rhythms of their unlikely new home ever since. The national team – Brett Sargon, 31, Ben Smith, 24, Hunter Walker, 21, and skipper Anton Hood, 23 – moved to Canada in early September, to strengthen their training and better their chances in the 2024 World Men’s Curling Championship in Switzerland – for which they have just qualified – and making the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. It is an ambitious goal: the last time New Zealand’s team made it to the Olympics was in 2006. Continue reading...

Researchers have reached an agreement on how best to measure the severity and impact of long COVID by identifying a "Core Outcome Measure Set" (COMS).