First Up for Tuesday 19 May 2020

5:53 AM.US Scientists are getting closer to having a viable antibody treatment for Covid-19 - with Distributed Bio today announcing their antibodies have been confirmed to successfully block the virus from… Read more Audio

5:50 AM.A digital diary style app to help people record where you've been on any given day will be released by the government tomorrow Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says people can use the app to log their… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.Queenstown residents say they're trapped in tenancy agreements they can't escape as rents begin to return to normal. Thousands of jobs have been lost in the resort town with more expected to go after… Read more Audio

5:38 AM.We're now officially a country of 5 million. According to Statistics New Zealand, at some point in March our population hit the milestone number - 17 years after we grew to 4 million. So who could the… Read more Audio

5:33 AM.All across New Zealand yesterday playgrounds were filled with the sound of school kids as schools fully opened up again for the first time in eight weeks. About 800,000 children were back in the… Read more Video, Audio

5:23 AM.Every Christmas TradeMe opens the Kindness Store and even though we're nowhere near Christmas, the company has decided to put one on now because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our producer Jeremy Parkinson… Read more Audio

5:07 AM.We begin in the UK where we're joined by our correspondent Henry Riley. Audio