23 Apr 2020

Covid-19 deaths climb to 16 in New Zealand

From Checkpoint, 5:17 pm on 23 April 2020

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has apologised to the family of a woman who's died of Covid-19 for describing her as being in a stable condition just days earlier.

Jocelyn Finlayson was one of two people who've died in the past 24 hours - on a day when the number of cases climbed by just three.

RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch has the story.