Checkpoint for Wednesday 14 July 2021

5:06 PM.Pfizer has confirmed another 1.5 million doses will arrive in New Zealand by the end of the August.

That's on top of the million being delivered over this month.

Starting on 30 July, the Vodafone… Read more Video, Audio

7:57 PM.A now defunct Auckland company which received nearly $15 million to house the homeless now owes the government tens of thousands of dollars in wage subsidies and tax payments.

Silverfern Property… Read more Audio

5:22 PM.Burnt-out nurses are being told to seek help from one another because of high demand for external counselling services.

The nurses union says the government has not told them about any plans to boost… Read more Audio

5:26 PM.Covid-19 lockdown just got two weeks longer in Sydney, as cases grow there.

But Premier Gladys Berejiklian has signalled there may be more restrictions to come.

There are 97 new cases on Wednesday… Read more Video, Audio

5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6263621206001 Video, Audio

5:40 PM.Warning: this story contains some graphic details.

Massey locals have described hiding from gunfire and the horror of a police officer being gunned down in their Auckland suburb.

Eli Epiha is on… Read more Video, Audio

5:43 PM.A south Auckland tertiary institute is the focus of the government's first mass Covid-19 vaccination event.

Starting on July 30, the Vodafone events centre in will be ground zero for an immunisation… Read more Video, Audio

5:50 PM.The head of MIQ is promising that Covid-19-positve crew members from the Viking Bay will be kept apart from other returnees.

Sixteen crew members are now isolating at the Grand Mecure Wellington -… Read more Audio

5:56 PM.There have been more reported sightings of orca pods around Wellington today as the search goes on for baby Toa's family.

Crews have been scouring from the sea and the air for a fourth day. Toa… Read more Video, Audio

6:07 PM.The government is hoping to vaccinate more than 15,000 people in its first major mass vaccine blitz later this month.

The three-day event in South Auckland will target staff, students and their… Read more Audio

6:11 PM.Sydneysiders will be locked down for at least another two weeks as the number of new Covid-19 cases in the community remains high.

Several younger people are among those in intensive care after… Read more Audio