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New data enough to leave a bad taste in your mouth

Monday, 27 June 2022, 1:03 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

A Helen Clark Foundation and Health Coalition Aotearoa analysis of Marketview data, which uses EFTPOS to track spending habits, has found that Auckland fast food and takeaway businesses raked in a staggering $6.718 billion over the last six years. ... More >>

Gastroenteritis Cases Spike As Auckland Hits Summer

Friday, 24 December 2021, 7:29 am | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

New data from Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) shows cases of gastroenteritis illnesses, such as Campylobacter and Salmonella, are increasing rapidly in the Auckland region this summer. These illnesses are most commonly caused by contaminated food ... More >>

Auckland Regional Public Health Service Commends Bold Plans To Achieve Smokefree Aotearoa 2025

Thursday, 15 April 2021, 4:36 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) is backing the comprehensive legislation proposed in the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan released today. ARPHS Medical Officer of Health Dr Nick Eichler says reducing the availability of a product that ... More >>

Passengers On Three Auckland Bus Journeys Are Asked To Watch For Symptoms

Monday, 12 April 2021, 4:55 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) has identified three bus journeys taken by Case B, the security guard from the Grand Millennium managed isolation facility, later diagnosed with COVID-19. Passengers who were on these buses at these times ... More >>

Auckland Regional Public Health Service Advises Care Following School Fire

Thursday, 10 December 2020, 3:48 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) is advising members of the public to take care if they are in the vicinity of Ponsonby Intermediate School where Tuesday’s fire occurred. The blaze occurred in a building that had asbestos in its roof, with ... More >>

Cleaning Product Swap May Explain Rise In Preschool Norovirus Cases

Tuesday, 8 December 2020, 10:33 am | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) is investigating a tenfold increase in the number of norovirus outbreaks in the region’s early learning services (ELSs) in the last month. During November, ARPHS responded to 29 norovirus outbreaks, with ... More >>

Patrons Of Greenhithe Pub Asked To Self Isolate And Get Tested

Thursday, 22 October 2020, 6:14 am | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

People at The Malt pub in Greenhithe on Friday night, 16 October, are being asked to self-isolate and get tested as part of an investigation into the movements of someone with COVID-19. A person now confirmed with COVID-19 was infectious while ... More >>

Confirmed COVID-19 Case At North Shore Gym, Supermarket And Warehouse Store

Sunday, 13 September 2020, 7:16 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) can confirm that a person later diagnosed as having COVID-19 had visited a number of locations in the community before knowing they had COVID-19. The locations include Les Mills gym in Takapuna, Countdown ... More >>

Northern Express Bus Driver Confirmed With COVI-19 But Low Risk To Passengers

Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 1:43 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) confirms that a driver of the Northern Express (NEX) bus service has been diagnosed as having COVID-19. ARPHS says there are no close contacts from the bus trips on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 September, between ... More >>

Further Auckland Bus Journeys Under Investigation

Sunday, 23 August 2020, 5:38 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) has identified further bus journeys taken separately by two people with COVID-19, and is alerting a number of close contacts from HOP card details. The two cases took a number of other buses while they were ... More >>

COVID-19 Cases On Auckland Bus Journeys

Saturday, 22 August 2020, 5:45 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

An Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) investigation has found that two people later diagnosed with COVID-19 travelled on the same Auckland bus on Wednesday 12 August. The people were not travelling together but the cases appear linked, with ... More >>

Strong uptake of testing by Marist College community

Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 3:22 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Testing of the wider Marist College community is paying off with one positive test reported today out of the more than 250 people who have been tested so far. More >>

Family In COVID-19 Isolation Requires Restraint And Calm

Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 11:08 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) is asking for restraint and calm as a Kiwi family in isolation for COVID-19 is battered through social media. ARPHS Director Dr William Rainger says the family has done everything right and has minimised ... More >>

Measles case on flights between Auckland and Tonga

Friday, 24 January 2020, 2:39 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) has been notified of a passenger with measles on two flights between Tonga and Auckland this week. More >>

Aucklanders urged to join the ‘refillution’ this summer

Monday, 20 January 2020, 11:01 am | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

With summer here and many Kiwis resolving to take greater care of the planet and themselves in 2020, now’s the time to join ‘the refillution’. More >>

Measles case on Samoa to Auckland flight

Tuesday, 24 December 2019, 6:20 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) has been notified of a passenger with measles on a flight from Samoa to Auckland last week. ARPHS Medical Officer of Health Dr Maria Poynter says people who may have been exposed on this flight should ... More >>

Measles case on Fiji to Auckland flight

Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 3:41 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) has been notified of passengers with measles on a flight from Nadi to Auckland last week. More >>

Measles cases on two Samoa to Auckland flights

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 5:06 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) has been notified of passengers with measles on two flights from Samoa to Auckland last weekend. More >>

Measles case on Samoa to Auckland flight

Monday, 11 November 2019, 4:01 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) has been notified of a case of measles on a flight from Samoa to Auckland. The person did not know they had measles at the time. More >>

Measles case on Samoa to Auckland flight

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 1:34 pm | Auckland Regional Public Health Service

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) has been notified of a case of measles in a New Zealand resident returning from Samoa to Auckland. The person did not know they had measles at the time. More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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