Checkpoint for Thursday 28 October 2021

5:07 PM.The government expects home isolation to be an option for travellers entering the country next year. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has announced an MIQ overhaul in three stages.

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5:12 PM.Christchurch has avoided a snap lockdown, despite two community cases, who visited several locations of interest.

Both people were unvaccinated, one of them was working for four days during their… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.Covid 19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins explains why he did not put Christchurch into a snap lockdown given the two positive cases.

He told Lisa Owen that requiring vaccination for those travelling… Read more Video, Audio

5:27 PM.While New Zealand's big cities continue to surge towards 90 percent fully vaccinated, parts of regional New Zealand are getting well and truly left behind.

Lakes DHB has identified Rotorua's western… Read more Video, Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6279134527001 Video, Audio

5:39 PM.Close to 300 Covid-19 cases are now isolating at home in Auckland, as the city moves to a suppression strategy.

A strict assessment criteria has to be met for someone to isolate at home and there's… Read more Video, Audio

5:47 PM.The government is looking at making vaccination a requirement to cross regional boundaries for all but some travel.

Two unvaccinated people in Christchurch have test positive for Covid-19 - one was… Read more Audio

5:51 PM.It might sound hard to believe, but this morning more than 200 Tesla executives toured a Manawatu farm, despite closed borders.

It is virtual tourism, and Palmerston North based lifestyle farmer… Read more Video, Audio

5:55 PM.Fossils up to three and a half million years old have been discovered while digging a tunnel to move Auckland's waste water.

Now Auckland Museum has partnered with Watercare to collect, identify… Read more Video, Audio

6:06 PM.There's no logic to today's tweaks to MIQ according to ACT leader David Seymour.

The government shortened managed isolation stays from 14 to to seven days in a government-run facility, followed by… Read more Video, Audio