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Checkpoint for Thursday 28 January 2021
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How did three Pullman Hotel cases catch Covid-19?
5:07 PM.The government is temporarily toughening up managed isolation rules in the wake of a growing number of community Covid-19 cases.
Three people are now confirmed to have caught the more contagious… Read more Video, Audio
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Covid-19: Latest from inside the Pullman Hotel under lockdown
5:18 PM.No more people will be put into managed isolation at the Pullman hotel until further notice.
Tenani French is in managed isolation at the Pullman and joins Lisa Owen with the details. Read more Video, Audio
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Police shut Tai Tokerau Covid-19 checkpoints citing safety issues
5:21 PM.Community checkpoints in Tai Tokerau have been shut down by police who say they risked public safety and people's right to travel freely.
Around a dozen volunteers from Te Tai Tokerau border control… Read more Video, Audio
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NZX slammed by FMA over failures behind 2020 cyber-attacks
5:25 PM.The New Zealand stock exchange has taken a beating.
The Financial Markets Authority delivered a scathing report on Thursday outlining a litany of failures at an operational and cultural level which… Read more Audio
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Torrent of water in Aro Valley as water main bursts
5:29 PM.RNZ has captured footage of water gushing from a burst water main and pouring down the street in Aro Valley in central Wellington.
The pipe burst sending a torrent of water gushing out of the main on… Read more Audio
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'Staring into the eyes of Jaws' - 12yo's encounter with mako
5:30 PM.A 12-year-old boy who encountered a three-metre long mako shark at a popular Auckland city beach says it was like "staring into the eyes of Jaws".
SafeSwim issued an alert for Kohimarama and its… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 28 January 2021
5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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A trans-Tasman bubble in 8 weeks? AUS-NZ forum chair is hopeful
5:40 PM.Eight weeks to a trans-Tasman bubble is the hope for of the Australia-New Zealand leadership forum, despite New Zealand's latest Covid-19 community cases.
The forum has been working for ten months on… Read more Video, Audio
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Kaikōura locals working hard to restore degraded wetlands
5:49 PM.Precious wetlands in Kaikōura that have been drained and degraded for generations, are now being lovingly restored and protected in projects that landowners and farmers hope will inspire others to do… Read more Video, Audio
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NZ's oldest known shipwreck revealed in new Tamatea documentary
6:06 PM.New Zealanders can soon dive into history and explore the country's oldest-known shipwreck as part of a new documentary series set in remote Fiordland.
Last winter Toitū Otago Settlers Museum… Read more Video, Audio
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New locations named in Covid-19 community cases
6:07 PM.The Ministry of Health has added some new locations to its list of places visited by New Zealand's two latest Covid-19 cases.
Checkpoint reporter Nick Truebridge is across the latest developments and… Read more Video, Audio
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Covid-19: Māori Party leaders cancel Waitangi visit plans
6:11 PM.Covid-19 has curbed Waitangi commemorations for The Māori Party. The co-leaders have decided not to travel north because of concerns over the latest community cases.
Three people have caught the more… Read more Video, Audio
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Queues after new cases at Auckland Covid-19 testing centres
6:16 PM.People have been queueing at Covid-19 testing centres in north Auckland, in response to the latest community cases.
Our reporter Kate Gregan and camera operator Dan Cook filed this report. Read more Video, Audio
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Seeing pink: Flamingo chicks hatch at Auckland Zoo
6:23 PM.Forget storks, flamingos have delivered newborns to Auckland Zoo. In the past fortnight two chicks have hatched.
Carl Ashworth, team leader for birds at Auckland Zoo, says the newest chick is doing… Read more Video, Audio