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Morning Report for Thursday 26 March 2020
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Top Stories for Thursday 26 March 2020
6:00 AM.Top stories this morning... New Zealand wakes to the first day of lockdown, cities and towns are quiet as people stay home. Hospitals are confident they are ready to cope with a rise in coronavirus… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: What the last day before lockdown was like
6:10 AM.Many New Zealanders were yesterday doing their last-minute grocery shop or tracking down the cable that will allow them to work from home.
Most shops had already shut down, except for supermarkets… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Kids sent away for lockdown
6:13 AM.An Auckland family doctor is opting to send her children away for the lockdown to keep them safe while she's on the Covid-19 frontline.
Marcia Wallace's husband is a primary school teacher so is able… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Tourists search for place to stay during lockdown
6:16 AM.Tourists have been driving around in cars to find somewhere to stay as New Zealand locks down.
Officials say wherever you spent last night is the place you need to stay during the lockdown.
Tourism… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 26 March 2020
6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Breaking rules could kill - Jacinda Ardern
6:37 AM.New Zealanders are waking up to a new reality - the country in isolation, to protect tens of thousands of New Zealanders from an invisible enemy - Covid-19.
As of midnight, everyone apart from… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Kiwi traveller headed home from Edinburgh
6:50 AM.With New Zealanders still racing to get home from overseas many know they'll be headed straight into quarantine when they land.
The Prime Minister says she estimates around 10,000 could be coming… Read more Audio
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Business News for 26 March 2020
6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Coronavirus: NZ wakes up to life in lockdown
7:10 AM.New Zealand is waking up to a morning like no other in its history - people are confined to their homes, everything but essential services are shut.
The Prime Minister's expectation of what people… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Police ready to arrest non-compliant during lockdown
7:12 AM.There are currently 205 Covid-19 cases in the country, with fifty new cases yesterday.
The police have the power to order any person to stop any activity that contributes to the spread of Covid-19… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Most hospital patients no longer allowed visitors
7:19 AM.Hospitals say they have been preparing for weeks for a rise in Coronavirus cases and are well placed to treat victims.
Dan Coward chairs the district health board's group of chief operating officers.
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Coronavirus: Prince Charles tests positive
7:24 AM.Prince Charles has the Coronavirus, and is displaying mild symptoms.
The heir to the throne is in isolation at Birkhall in Aberdeen, Scotland with his wife, Camilla, who has tested negative.
Their… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Senate agrees on $2 trillion relief package
7:28 AM.It is a "wartime level of investment".
That's how the Senate republican leader, Mitch McConnell, described the colossal US$2 trillion stimulus package that's just been agreed between Senate leaders… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Economists say unemployment could hit 30pct
7:42 AM.Senior economists are predicting unemployment to reach 15 percent, with one warning it could even hit 30 percent as Covid-19 brings the economy to a shuddering halt.
They say the sudden stop to most… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Doctors send their kids away
7:44 AM.Some doctors are sending their children away from home during the lockdown as they struggle with child care while on the frontline of Covid-19.
They say it's been a stressful few days since the alert… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Air NZ tells staff to use their leave
7:48 AM.Air New Zealand has told thousands of its staff who're in lockdown they'll be paid for two weeks but then have to start using their leave.
Their union says the move is borderline legal and is seeking… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Government works to protect tenants
7:52 AM.The Government has frozen rents and is protecting tenants from eviction during the Covid-19 lockdown, but there is some confusion about what is expected of tenants if they get into financial… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Harbourmaster to patrol Marlborough Sounds
7:54 AM.Patrol vessels will be doing sweeps of the Marlborough Sounds from this morning to check for any recreational boaties and yachties flouting the lockdown rules.
Marlborough Harbourmaster Luke Grogan… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: What the streets are like under lockdown
8:10 AM.It's the first morning of New Zealand's four week lockdown in which our number one job is to stay at home to stop the spread of Covid-19.
If the message has got through there should be no one on the… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 26 March 2020
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: NZ's farthest reaches await news on supply links
8:42 AM.Residents of New Zealand's farthest reaches are waiting to hear when essential supplies will be able to come in.
From Stewart Island to Tokelau, local officials are working to preserve flight and… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Midwives give advice on home births
8:44 AM.With the country locked down, pregnant people will be relieved to know they can still receive care at home from a midwife.
If they have any symptoms of Covid-19, or any possible exposure to a… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: No funerals or tangi over lockdown a sad reality
8:49 AM.The families of people who die during the lockdown will be forced to grieve in isolation.
Funeral directors will continue as normal through Alert Level Four but funeral ceremonies and tangihanga have… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Antarctic guides trapped in Uruguay
8:54 AM.Two New Zealand crew members who've just returned from an Antarctic cruise with Oceanwide Expeditions -- are struggling to find their way home from South America.
They are now in Montevideo in… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Gyms come up with ways to help customers
8:57 AM.Gym owners are coming up with inventive ways for their members to continue workouts during the lockdown period.
Jeff Willoughby is the owner of Studio 41 in Wellington and has quickly converted his… Read more Audio