COVID-19

Advice for Health Professionals

• Advice for Health Professionals
• Omicron response plan
• Case definition of COVID-19 infection
• Vaccine information for health professionals
• Vaccine updates
• Questions and answers for primary health care workers

Notification of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus)

While COVID-19 remains a notifiable disease, we are now at phase 2 of the pandemic response, and most notification will be direct from the laboratory result.

The Medical Officers of Health do not expect direct notification of COVID-19 cases from clinicians at this time.

Key websites

• COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) - Ministry of Health
• Unite against COVID-19 - New Zealand Government
• COVID-19 - SafeTravel
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic - World Health Organization
   

Resources

• Resources and tools - Ministry of Health
• Updates - Unite Against COVID-19
• Bay of Plenty and Lakes Community Health and Wellbeing Needs Impact Assessment 2020 - Toi Te Ora Public Health