Covid cases have risen 33% in the week ending July 10 as the government announces new measures to flatten the curve.
With the public health system under pressure, charity hospitals and philanthropists are stepping up.
A Statistics NZ wellbeing survey that was cut short by last year's covid lockdown shows that more than a quarter of the population suffered from poor mental health.
How general practices are being paid is an escalating dispute in the health system that's so far flown below the radar.