Checkpoint for Tuesday 17 August 2021

5:07 PM.Covid-19 is back in the community. What happens now?

Health officials have confirmed a positive case of the virus early this afternoon.

It's in Auckland but so far there is no link between the… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.It is Tuesday afternoon and people are already flocking to supermarkets to stock up.

There have been queues forming outside several of them. Nick Truebridge is outside a Mt Eden supermarket.

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5:17 PM.The Chief Ombudsman has been swamped with complaints about Managed Isolation and Quarantine.

Judge Peter Boshier's office has received more than 700 MIQ and border-related complaints since 1 July… Read more Video, Audio

5:26 PM.Those in the market for their first home will need to stump up tens of thousands of extra dollars when lending is tightened to those with low deposits.

The Reserve Bank is halving the amount of… Read more Audio

5:29 PM.The Warehouse Group is among several organisations who have been handing out the Covid vaccine at work.

They're part of a group trialing the at-work pilot - meaning their workers don't have to go far… Read more Video, Audio

5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6268274333001 Video, Audio

5:37 PM.People across the motu have headed to supermarkets in big numbers, following the announcement of a community case of Covid-19 in Auckland.

Police say they're aware of lengthy queues outside… Read more Video, Audio

5:44 PM.Queues are also forming at Covid-19 testing stations.

Our reporter Nick Truebridge is at a testing station in the Auckland suburb of Balmoral.

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5:54 PM.New Zealanders with families in Afghanistan are desperate to be reunited with their loved ones.

New Zealand is sending one of its Hercules aircraft and 40 Defence Force troops to help with a wider… Read more Audio

5:56 PM.The Wellington region has been bombarded with a series of weather related incidents, causing havoc to trains and roads today.

A landslip this morning took out two of the main commuter routes, with a… Read more Audio

6:11 PM.A case of Covid-19 has been detected in Auckland this afternoon. It is not yet known, but suspected to be the Delta variant.

All of New Zealand will move to Alert Level Four from 11:59pm Tuesday.

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6:33 PM.All of New Zealand will move to Alert Level 4 lockdown for three days from 11:59pm Tuesday, as a Covid-19 case in the community in Auckland threatens the country with a Delta variant outbreak.

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6:40 PM.Scientists are working hard to find the source of this latest case of Covid-19, looking for potential links through the genome sequencing.

Its lead for genomics is Joep de Ligt. He talks to Lisa… Read more Video, Audio

6:44 PM.A man in his 50s has tested positive for Covid-19. He is from the Auckland suburb of Devonport, and was tested at his GP.

Checkpoint reporter Nick Truebridge joins Lisa Owen now from downtown… Read more Video, Audio

6:45 PM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced New Zealand is being plunged back into a Level 4 lockdown from midnight - after a case of Covid-19 was discovered in the community.

A 58-year-old man from… Read more Video, Audio

6:49 PM.A case of Covid-19 has been detected in Auckland this afternoon. It is not yet known, but suspected to be the Delta variant.

Professor Michael Baker is an epidemiologist from the University of Otago… Read more Video, Audio

6:55 PM.New Zealand's latest lockdown has come after a new case had been found in the community in Auckland, without a link between the case and the border or managed isolation.

Thirteen of the first… Read more Video, Audio