This section provides the latest updates, information and advice on COVID-19.
Current situation
New Zealand has 1,487 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19. More information is available on our current cases page. With continued vigilance the chance of widespread community outbreak is expected to remain low.
New Zealand is currently at Alert Level 3 – Restrict. To find out more see:
COVID-19 information on this website is reviewed and updated regularly. This includes advice for Alert Level 3.
Important updates
- Contact tracing phone calls: If you have been identified as a close contact, you can expect calls from Ministry of Health and Healthline. It is important to answer your phone. Find out how to recognise a call from the Ministry or Healthline at Contact tracing.
- Join the COVID-19 surge workforce: We are seeking expressions of interest from health and care professionals who are able and willing to work for a limited amount of time as part of the national strategic approach to managing COVID-19. Find out more.
- Personal protective equipment (PPE): What's important for you to know about PPE.
For COVID-19 health advice and information, contact the Healthline team (for free) on 0800 358 5453 or +64 9 358 5453 for international SIMS.
- Advice for all health professionals
- Allied health professionals
- Cancer and screening services
- Case definition
- Disability, aged care and hospice providers
- Join the COVID-19 surge workforce
- PPE use in health care
- Medical transfer
- Maternity
- Pharmacy
- Primary care
- Recording COVID-19
- Telehealth and online tools
- Well Child providers
- Accommodation providers
- Air crew and border sector
- Cleaning services
- Deaths, funerals and tangihanga
- Disabled people
- Hospice patients
- Older people
- Parents
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Pregnant women
- Public events and mass gatherings
- Travellers arriving to NZ
- Supporting a person with dementia
- Workplaces
Latest updates
Our advice is under active review and is updated regularly. The latest updates include the following changes to the website:
2 May:
1 May:
- Alert Level 3 Guidance Home and Community Support Services and Supported Living providers
- Updated: Information for community-based midwives
- Updated: Breastfeeding advice for women who have a confirmed or probable case of COVID-19
- Updated: Information for hospice providers
30 April:
29 April:
- Information for older people who live alone, including in a retirement village - Creating safe bubbles
- Alert Level 3 information and guidelines for Allied health professionals
- Learning modules to support your family and whānau
- Updated: Occupational health guidance for vulnerable community-based self-employed midwives
- Updated: COVID-19 interNASC transfers – Aged Residential Care
- Alert Level 3 information for Well Child Tamariki Ora providers
28 April:
- Updated information for pregnant women
- Information for radiologists on community-based maternity ultrasounds at Alert Level 3 & 4
- Updated Border controls with information on exemptions from managed isolation
- Public health guidelines for businesses operating under Alert Level 3
- Alert Level 3 for disabled people
- Updated Getting disability support
- Updated Advice to airline crew on precautions to reduce risk of COVID-19 infection
- Updated Advice for public events and mass gatherings
27 April:
- Updated Information for parents
- Updated Advice for older people and their family and whānau
- Updated Advice for aged care providers – residents with dementia
- Updated Guidance for admissions into aged residential care facilities
- Deaths, funerals and tangihanga at Alert Level 3
- Health Act (COVID-19 Alert Level 3) Order 2020