This section provides the latest updates, information and advice on COVID-19.
Current situation
New Zealand has 1,498 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19. More information is available on our current cases page.
Alert Level 2
On Thursday 14 May New Zealand moved to Alert Level 2 - Reduce.
- Find out about Health and disability services at Alert Level 2.
- More information about Alert Level 2 is available on the COVID 19 website.
Following the move to Alert Level 2 we're working hard to get our content updated as soon as possible.
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.
- Personal protective equipment (PPE): What's important for you to know about PPE.
- Breaches of COVID-19 restrictions: If you're concerned about a breach of current COVID-19 restrictions, you can report it to the COVID-19 Compliance Centre.
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.
- About COVID-19: Symptoms, spread and where to get help
- Assessment and testing
- Caring for yourself and others at home
- Contact tracing
- Face mask and hygiene advice
- Managing your health conditions
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Protecting yourself and others
- Questions and answers
- Self-isolation for close contacts
- Advice for all health professionals
- Allied health professionals
- Cancer and screening services
- Case definition
- Funded temporary accommodation
- Health sector providers
- Join the COVID-19 surge workforce
- Maternity
- Medical transfer
- Mental health and addiction
- PPE use in health care
- Pharmacy
- Primary care
- Recording COVID-19
- Telehealth and online tools
- Well Child providers
Latest updates
Our advice is under active review and is updated regularly. The latest updates include the following changes to the website:
16 May:
15 May:
- Updated: Personal protective equipment use for non-health workers
- Updated: Personal protective equipment use in health care
- Updated: Information for Hospice providers
14 May:
- Updated: Visiting policy in aged residential care under Alert Level 2
- Added: Information on Alert Level 2 for disabled people
- Added: Disability Support Services at Alert Level 2
- Added: About COVID-19
- Added: Assessment and testing for COVID-19
- Added: Protecting yourself and others from COVID-19
- COVID-19 quarantine and managed isolation numbers
- Quarantine and managed isolation at Alert Level 2
13 May:
- Updated: Advice for community allied health, scientific and technical providers
- Updated: Advice for older people and their family and whanau
- Alert Level 2 guidance for Well Child Tamariki Ora
- Deaths, funerals and tangihanga: what happens at Alert Level 2
- Updated: Information for pregnant women, and those who have recently given birth
- Information for radiologists on community-based maternity ultrasounds at Alert Level 2
- Health and disability services at Alert Level 2
- Updated: COVID-19: Information for parents during Alert Level 2