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Checkpoint for Monday 30 March 2020
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Covid-19 lockdown: Your employment questions answered
6:37 PM.With all but essential businesses closed for the lockdown - many people are either working from home or not working.
But should you be paid in full or only the wage subsidy? Can you be told to take… Read more Video, Audio
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Propery managers tell landlords not to give rent holidays
6:10 PM.A nationwide property management company is actively discouraging landlords from offering rent holidays to struggling tenants during the Covid-19 shutdown.
On its website and in emails to landlords… Read more Audio
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Covid-19 lockdown day five: What you need to know
6:07 PM.After days of warnings and education, police are taking a harder line for those repeatedly breaking the isolation rules.
The Police Commissioner's rhetoric around tourists flouting the rules is… Read more Audio
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Desperate NZers stuck in Peru plead for NZ govt help
5:51 PM.Desperate New Zealanders stuck in Peru are pleading with the government for help, after they were bumped off an Australian charter flight that was meant to get them home.
Over the weekend, 24 New… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Website to report lockdown breaches crashes in hours
5:47 PM.A police website for reporting suspected lockdown breaches was so overrun with complaints it crashed just hours after being launched.
If you suspect a business or individual is breaching the Covid-19… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Matamata cases cluster from St Patrick's party at bar
5:43 PM.More than twenty cases of Covid-19 have been linked to a St Patrick's Day party at a bar in the small Waikato town of Matamata.
The Waikato District Health Board has confirmed there are now 23 cases… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 30 March 2020
5:41 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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Covid-19 lockdown: Immediate bubbles can now visit deceased in funeral homes
5:38 PM.Family members within the same bubble of a deceased person will now be able to visit them in a funeral home, after the Ministry of Health announced new guidelines for funerals and tangihanga on Monday… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Extended border closures to hit NZ tourism hard
5:27 PM.The tourism industry is in survival mode as it braces for extended border closures.
The government is not ruling out keeping up borders restrictions until a vaccine for Covid-19 is available - which… Read more Audio
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No commitment to cover vege, fruit stock losses - Consumer Affairs Minister
5:19 PM.Shoppers will be able to dob in alleged price gouging by supermarket chains - after the government set up a special email address for people to send their complaints too.
The two main brands… Read more Video, Audio
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Covid-19 lockdown: Fruit, vegetables going to waste - traders
5:12 PM.Rules preventing independent fruit and vegetable sellers from trading during the Covid-19 lockdown are said to be leading to huge food waste and high produce prices.
The independents say they can… Read more Video, Audio
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Covid-19: Police boss warns of lockdown breach consequences
5:08 PM.Police Commissioner Mike Bush has made a subtle threat that if people can't get their social distancing right, there will be consequences.
Police were called to a 60-person party at a backpackers in… Read more Video, Audio
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Covid-19 lockdown: Ardern warns supermarkets over high prices
5:07 PM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has put supermarkets on notice, launching a website for New Zealanders to raise concerns about rising food prices.
She says while there has been no evidence of price… Read more Video, Audio