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Morning Report for Tuesday 7 April 2020
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Top Stories for Tuesday 7 April 2020
6:00 AM.Coronavirus: Health Minister admits second lockdown breach; Cyclone Harold makes landfall in Vanuatu; Coronavirus: NZ races to produce chemicals for Covid-19 testing; Coronavirus: Could testing sewage… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 7 April 2020
6:25 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio
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Morning Rural News for 7 April 2020
6:27 AM.News from the rural and farming sectors. Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Health Minister admits to lockdown breaches
6:39 AM.Health minister David Clark has offered to resign after admitting to more more breaches of the Level 4 lockdown.
He has admitted that in addition to driving to a mountain bike track on the first… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Expert calls for tracking bracelets on travellers
6:42 AM.A leading Covid-19 scientist says travellers arriving in New Zealand once the lockdown ends might need to be forced to wear electronic bracelets to monitor their movements.
It is likely new arrivals… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Kiwi family trapped in Bali
6:47 AM.A New Zealand couple living in Bali say they've no choice but to "hunker down" and wait out the Covid-19 crisis on the island as attempts to return home have failed.
They say even if they could… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Invercargill, Gore bottle shops still selling spirits
6:50 AM.Bottle stores in Invercargill and Gore are not following the example of west Auckland and pulling spirits off the shelves.
Aucklanders, knowing licensing trust zones in the West were the only place… Read more Audio
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Business News for 7 April 2020
6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Health Minister admits second lockdown breach
7:09 AM.The Health Minister David Clark has admitted he broke the lockdown rules more than once and offered the Prime Minister his resignation last night.
Jacinda Ardern has said in a statement this morning… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Government charters flight for Kiwis in Peru
7:25 AM.The government has announced it will charter a flight to get New Zealanders stranded in Peru home.
Meanwhile as Vanuatu suffers the effects of Cyclone Harold, New Zealand's military is ready to help.
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Cyclone Harold makes landfall in Vanuatu
7:30 AM.Cyclone Harold has been causing widespread damage as it lashes Vanuatu.
The cyclone made landfall on the north and west of the country yesterday, with sustained winds reaching up to 235 kilometres an… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: NZ races to produce chemicals, equipment for Covid-19 testing
7:45 AM.New Zealand is racing to find other ways to produce and source chemicals and equipment critical for coronavirus testing.
Huge global demand is putting pressure on supplies and microbiologists… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Epidemiologists feeling 'reasonably positive' about NZ progress
7:48 AM.On the cusp of our third week of lockdown, public health researchers are working on how to identify if and when Covid-19 has been eliminated from the country.
They say increased testing is essential… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Government response has shortfalls and blindspots - Māori health professionals
7:54 AM.Maori health professionals say the government's response to Covid-19 has serious shortfalls and blindspots and it's putting Maori communities, and therefore New Zealand, at risk.
Dr Elana Curtis is… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Immigrants unable to claim benefits face poverty
7:56 AM.Immigrants say they are facing life on the breadline after losing their jobs and being unable to claim benefits or return home.
An advocacy group says it is hypocritical of the Government to… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Health Minister's multiple lockdown breaches
8:08 AM.The Health Minister David Clark says he's let New Zealand down by taking a trip to a beach during the Level 4 lockdown, in addition to other questionable movements while his Government urged Kiwis to… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson in intensive care
8:13 AM.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken into intensive care after he was hospitalised with coronavirus symptoms yesterday.
A spokesperson for Downing Street said the Prime Minister's… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Non-food export manufacturers plead to open
8:17 AM.Non-food export manufacturers say they face irreversible market loss if they have to stay shut under the Covid-19 lockdown.
They are calling on the Government to put them on equal footing with food… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Mad Butcher CEO claims government decisions hurt butchers
8:24 AM.The Mad Butcher chain says government indecision has created strife for butchers.
They were told at the start of the lockdown they had to shut as they're not an essential service.
Yesterday it was… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Phil Goff on calls to freeze rates rise
8:28 AM.The Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance is demanding the Council put a freeze on a planned rates increase.
Mayor Phil Goff announced a 3.5 percent rates increase last year but the alliance says the… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 7 April 2020
8:35 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: US death toll hits 10,000
8:41 AM.The coronavirus death toll in the United States has risen above 10,000 amid some preliminary signs that the crisis in New York may have reached its peak.
President Trump declared there is light at… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Crusaders caught flouting lockdown
8:45 AM.The Super Rugby champion Crusaders have apologised after several members of their squad were spied flouting isolation rules.
The players, including All Blacks first-five Richie Mo'unga, were passing… Read more Audio
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Coronavirus: Kiwi in New York a month into lockdown
8:50 AM.The suburb of New Rochelle in New York has been one of the success stories of containment of Covid-19 in the hard hit city.
The US has recorded 10,000 deaths, more than 3000 of those in New York.
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Coronavirus: Lockdown not a stretch for dairy farmer
8:55 AM.After nearly two weeks of lockdown a great many of us are getting very familiar with life within the boundary fence.
But for some people, staying pretty much put on the property is the normal… Read more Audio