New Zealand Disasters: Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic - Fatalities

Alert Level 4: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the country would move to Alert Level 4 from 11.59pm on Wednesday 25 March 2020. Level 4 came with a 'stay home, save lives' message. Supermarkets, doctors, pharmacies, service stations and access to essential banking services were available throughout New Zealand at every alert level. Under Level 4 only essential services were open and travel was severely limited.

Alert Level 3: New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11.59pm on Monday 27 April 2020. Level 3 meant New Zealanders could slightly expand their bubbles, have takeaways delivered to them, and in some cases send their children back to school. More businesses were allowed to open if they limited face-to-face interaction with customers. People were still told to stay at home other than for essential personal movement and only regional travel was allowed.

Alert Level 2: New Zealand moved to Alert Level 2 at 11:59pm on Wednesday 13 May 2020. All businesses could open, but physical distancing applied, along with other appropriate public health requirements (e.g. physical distancing, and having contact tracing registers). From midday Friday 29 May the limit on gatherings changed from 10 to 100 people.

2021 Delta outbreak: On 17 August 2021 all of New Zealand moved to Alert Level 4 at 11:59pm. On 2 September 2021 all of New Zealand (except Auckland) moved to Alert Level 3.

Key People:

• New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern
• New Zealand Minister for COVID-19 Response, Christopher John Hipkins
• New Zealand’s Director-General of health, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield

New Zealand deaths attributed to Covid-19 in date order:

1. 2020 March 29: Jean Anne Guenole Greymouth, Grey Base Hospital
2. 2020 April 9: Woman (aged 94), Christchurch, Burwood Hospital
3. 2020 April 10: Bernard William Pope Christchurch, Rosewood Resthome resident moved to Burwood Hospital
4. 2020 April 10: Chrisanthos Tzanoudakis Wellington Hospital
5. 2020 April 13: Man in his 80s, Christchurch, Rosewood Resthome resident moved to Burwood Hospital
6. 2020 April 13: Bob James Wellington Hospital
7. 2020 c.April 14: Man in his 90s, Christchurch, Rosewood Resthome resident moved to Burwood Hospital
8. 2020 c.April 14: Man in his 80s, Christchurch, Rosewood Resthome resident moved to Burwood Hospital
9. 2020 c.April 14: Man in his 90s, Christchurch, Rosewood Resthome resident moved to Burwood Hospital
10. 2020 April 14: Alister Peter Brookland Invercargill, Kingswell
11. 2020 April 16: Denis Albert Moore Hamilton, Waikato Hospital
12. 2020 April 16: Woman in her 80s, Christchurch, Rosewood Resthome resident moved to Burwood Hospital
13. 2020 April 20: Woman in her 70s, Auckland, St Margaret's Rest Home, Te Atatū
14. 2020 c.April 21: Woman in her 80s, Christchurch, Rosewood Resthome resident moved to Burwood Hospital
15. 2020 April 22: Jocelyn Finlayson Dunedin Hospital
16. 2020 April 23: Man in his 70s, Christchurch, Rosewood Resthome hospital unit
17. 2020 April 24: Man in his 60s, Christchurch, Rosewood Resthome hospital unit
18. 2020 April 24: Woman in her 70s, Auckland, St Margaret's Rest Home resident moved to Waitākere hospital
19. 2020 April 27: Woman in her 90s, Auckland, St Margaret's Rest Home resident moved to Waitākere hospital
20. 2020 May 2: George Hollings Christchurch, Burwood Hospital
21. 2020 May 5: Woman in her 60s, Christchurch, Rosewood Resthome
22. 2020 May 24: Eileen Margaret Hunter Auckland, St Margaret's Rest Home, Te Atatū
23. 2020 September 4: Alan Te Hiko Auckland, Middlemore Hospital
24. 2020 September 4: Dr Joe Williams Auckland City Hospital
25. 2020 September 15: Nigel Huirama Te Hiko Hamilton, Waikato Hospital
26. 2021 February 13: Returnee arrived from Zambia via the United Arab Emirates on February 2 and tested positive for the virus after being transported to hospital from managed isolation for a non-Covid-19-related condition on February 5. Auckland, North Shore Hospital
27. 2021 September 3: Woman, in her 90s with underlying health conditions, Auckland, North Shore Hospital
28. 2021 October 6: Man, in his 50s, member of Māngere’s Assembly of God Church. Auckland, Middlemore Hospital
29. 2021 November 1: Male (age 68) - Glen Eden (buried according to family's Islamic faith)
30. 2021 November 2: Death - isolating at home
31. 2021 November 1: Death - isolating at home
32. 2021 November 5: Male, 50s. Auckland, Mt Eden (after discharging himself from hospital)
33. 2021 November 8: Male, 40s. Auckland, Manukau (in his apartment)
34. 2021 November 15: Death
35. 2021 November 15: Death
36. 2021 November 15: Death
37. 2021 November 15: Death
38. 2021 November 15: Death
39. 2021 November 15: Death
40. 2021 November 22: Male, in his 40s. Auckland, Middlemore Hospital.
41. 2021 November 22: Death
42. 2021 November 22: Death
43. 2021 November 27: Rex Henry Warwood Auckland, North Shore Hospital.
44. 2021 November 29: Death

Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine deaths:

1. 2021 July ?: Female in her 50s. An independent vaccine safety monitoring board said the woman developed myocarditis, a severe side affect, after receiving the Pfizer jab. Up to August 7, five deaths were still under investigation by the Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring over whether they were linked to the vaccine.
2. 2021 November 17: Nairn, Rory - possible death from myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle

Page last updated: 5 December 2021.