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Monday, 23 August 2021
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How will mandatory Covid-19 scanning work?
23 Aug 2021A South Island festival organiser says they're scrambling to work out how to enforce mandatory scanning, if they're able to go ahead.
Tess Brunton has more. Read more Audio
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Auckland Covid-19 outbreak grows, what you need to know
23 Aug 2021At least 13,000 contacts and more than 300 locations of interest - the tentacles of the latest Covid-19 outbreak are continuing to spread right across Auckland, and beyond.
Thirty-five new cases were… Read more Audio
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Coromandel cautiously optimistic as no Covid-19 cases found
23 Aug 2021The Coromandel community is cautiously optimistic it may have dodged a Covid-19 bullet - with widespread testing so far revealing no sign of the virus.
About 60 percent of the local population is… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Crowne Plaza passers-by chased by health officials
23 Aug 2021Health authorities have been tracking down six people who were in an open walkway while the person with the earliest identified case of the Delta variant was in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel MIQ… Read more Video, Audio
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Covid-19 scanning, signing in - how it's happening in Auckland
23 Aug 2021Scan, scan, scan. Or if you can't do that, it's sign in with pen and paper.
New rules are coming into force making it mandatory to record your visit at most busy places or events.
The change will… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 23 August 2021
23 Aug 2021News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Seven Countdown supermarkets close as staff isolate
23 Aug 2021Seven Auckland Countdown supermarkets have been forced to close - mostly due to staff shortages.
That's because a thousand company employees in Auckland and Wellington are isolating because their… Read more Video, Audio
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Covid-19 lockdown extended - latest from Parliament
23 Aug 2021Political editor Jane Patterson is at Parliament where the House meeting has been suspended for a week.
Select committees are continuing virtually.
RNZ political editor Jane Patterson has the… Read more Video, Audio
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Auckland still needs Covid-19 vaccination priority - Phil Goff
23 Aug 2021Ninety-nine of the 107 cases in this Delta cluster are in Auckland. Just eight are in the capital.
So far no other cities or towns have returned positives for the more transmissible strain.
And the… Read more Video, Audio
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Covid-19 lockdown extended, longer for Auckland - Jacinda Ardern
23 Aug 2021All of New Zealand will remain at Alert Level 4 lockdown for another four days, until 11:59pm this Friday.
The Auckland region, however, will remain in lockdown until 11:59pm next Tuesday August 31.
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Covid-19 isolation rules hitting vegetable growers
23 Aug 2021When news of the lockdown broke, people raced out and got broccoli.
The trouble is, it's getting harder for vegetable growers to handle the demands of keeping supermarkets stocked.
Sally Murphy… Read more Audio
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Covid-19 lockdown: Students need certainty over NCEA
23 Aug 2021Secondary school students facing high stakes assessments will be in lockdown until at least Friday night, and until the end of the month for Aucklanders.
The Ministry of Education says schools… Read more Video, Audio
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About this programme
Checkpoint is RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme, tackling the national and international stories of the day.
The show airs weekdays fro4-6pm and is hosted by Lisa Owen.
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