To meet domestic travel requirements from mid-December, 15-minute Covid-19 rapid antigen testing will be available at no cost from community pharmacies... Read More

Today there are five new cases in Bay of Plenty, with all being in the Tauranga area. Of these, three are linked to previously reported cases, and links... Read More

Four new locations of interest for Tauranga have been announced today. People who visited the Brookfield Hot Bread on Saturday, December 4 between 12:30pm... Read More

  Chinese restaurant Kwang Chow in Mount Maunganui has been listed as a high risk location of interest. People who were there at the times of... Read More

Ōpōtiki District Council and Toi Te Ora Public Health are confirming that an Ōpōtiki resident has tested positive for Covid-19. The individual... Read More

  UPDATE 3.12PM: An additional location of interest in Tauranga has been added to the Ministry of Health’s list this afternoon.   Midas... Read More

There are five new community cases of Covid-19 in the Bay of Plenty today, with 90 new cases nationwide. All five of the cases in the Bay of Plenty... Read More

While Whakatāne District Council has announced vaccine passes will be required to enter some of its facilities, no such mandate has been issued by... Read More

The Ministry of Health has added four new locations of interest for the Tauranga area. The new locations, which can be found here, are The Warehouse... Read More

Maungatapu Primary School have announced a positive case of Covid-19 amongst one of their students. In a post on the school’s Facebook page,... Read More

There are eight cases to report in the Bay of Plenty today, all of which are in the Tauranga area. A Ministry of Health spokesperson says all of the... Read More

As the Western Bay of Plenty moves to orange under the government’s new Covid-19 Protection Framework, Legacy Funerals have announced a new policy... Read More

  Te Akau ki Pāpāmoa School is reporting a successful distribution of iPads for most whanau/families to allow the school to continue to operate... Read More

Some students at Brookfield Primary School are moving to distance learning following news of a Covid positive case at the school. In a post on Facebook,... Read More

World Health Organisation spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris says the Covid-19 Omicron variant has "many more mutations" but it is yet to be found... Read More