First Up for Monday 30 August 2021

5:49 AM.Over the past two weeks more than 500 people have received the news that they've contracted Covid-19, with 34 of them so unwell that they have needed hospital treatment. It's prompted people who've… Read more Audio

5:43 AM.Kiwis holidaying in the Cook Islands say its a pretty good place to wait out the storm, while New Zealand remains in lockdown. Since the opening of the travel bubble in May, kiwi tourists have been… Read more Audio

5:31 AM.Michael Johnson has been on the Paralympics podium three times over the past 17 years, but a fourth, at the last Games in Rio, has motivated the 47-year-old para shooter to keep honing his craft. The… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.Joining Nathan Rarere from the locked down markets is our Minister of Fruit and Veg Glenn Forsyth - leafy greens in high demand. Audio

5:13 AM.Why is a blue jacket listed as an "essential item" for delivery during Alert Level 4 but a red jacket not? It's one of the anomolies we found when trying to find out what can and can't be delivered… Read more Audio

5:09 AM.The Chinese city of Nanjing is well on the way to becoming the first in the world to completely eliminate the Delta strain of covid-19. More than 100 million tests have been undertaken in the wider… Read more Audio