Checkpoint for Monday 20 September 2021

5:05 PM.The government has announced Auckland will drop to Covid-19 alert level three from midnight Wednesday morning.

It will remain in those tight restrictions for at least two weeks.

The decision will be… Read more Audio

5:10 PM.A testing blitz has been on in several Waikato towns today after three cases emerged from a household on the Hauraki Plains.

The three are household members of a prisoner on bail, who returned to… Read more Audio

5:13 PM.Lisa Owen asks Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson what advice he could give to Aucklanders who had travel booked for the school holidays beginning on October 2.

They also discuss the return of the… Read more Video, Audio

5:22 PM.Auckland will move to alert level 3 from 11:59pm Tuesday, and will stay there for at least two weeks.

There were 22 new cases today, but health authorities say most new cases are linked to… Read more Video, Audio

5:24 PM.Parts of the Hauraki plains have effectively been ring-fenced and placed into alert level 4 for at least five days.

It takes in an area near Miranda where there are three new Covid-19 cases including… Read more Video, Audio

5:29 PM.New Zealanders overseas trying to book a coveted spot in MIQ are still rolling the dice - just under a different system.

A new MIQ voucher system made its debut today, allocating more than 3,000… Read more Audio

5:36 PM.The lobby was very crowded this morning with at least 25,000 people waiting with their fingers crossed for a spot in MIQ.

Three thousand rooms were released on Monday morning under the new system… Read more Video, Audio

5:44 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6273356501001 Video, Audio

5:47 PM.Some businesses on Tāmaki Makaurau's northern border say things are so quiet they fear they may go extinct - and desperately want a travel corridor to keep them moving.

RNZ Tai Tokerau reporter Nita… Read more Audio

5:51 PM.Are the tentacles of the housing crisis now creeping their way into the justice sector?

Fewer new judges are willing to move towns after being appointed to the bench - a convention set up to reduce… Read more Audio

5:55 PM.A refusal to get the Covid-19 vaccination has cost basketball player Tai Webster his spot on the New Zealand Breakers roster for the upcoming Australian National Basketball League season.

The club… Read more Audio

6:10 PM.Epidemiologist Professor Rod Jackson discusses Auckland's move to Covid-19 alert level 3. Read more Video, Audio

6:17 PM.It's been a logistical nightmare but the Silver Ferns and England will meet in the first of three Tests in Christchurch tonight.

Four days ago, the Silver Ferns were preparing to play without their… Read more Video, Audio