Morning Report for Tuesday 14 April 2020

6:16 AM.Recycling has been put on hold by a number of councils during Alert Level 4, but that has left households wondering what to do with an ever increasing pile of paper and plastic.

Residents are being… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:39 AM.A major healthcare provider is struggling to get personal protection equipment for their staff, with the ability to get the equipment differing from one District Health Board to another.

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6:42 AM.The Government is launching three digital mental health tools today to help people deal with the effects of Covid-19.

Two apps and an e-therapy course will use things like daily web seminars and… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.Tertiary students are hoping a promised government package will help students struggling to pay for essentials like food and power because of the lockdown.

Students associations say weekly student… Read more Audio

6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Rest homes are now looking at buying their own Covid-19 testing kits after the Ministry of Health refused to test new admissions.

Infections have now spread to four rest homes - one in Auckland, one… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.A group of academics are calling on the government to get the country back to normal as soon as the lockdown ends, but other experts are saying normality could be months away.

The group, led by… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Rest homes are looking at buying their own Covid 19 testing kits after the Ministry of Health refused to test new admissions.

This comes as infections continue to show up among the country's most… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.Police were out in force over the Easter weekend with 500 checkpoints set up around the country and thousands of motorists stopped.

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster is on the line speaks to Corin… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.Stocking shelves at supermarkets for little more than the minimum wage has become a desirable job for airline pilots and tens of thousands of others desperate for work.

New unemployment figures will… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.Almost three weeks into lockdown and one of the country's major healthcare providers is still struggling to get even a week's worth of personal protection equipment from the 20 District Health Boards.

7:47 AM.The nurses union says it's expecting hundreds of its members who have had their hours cut to take legal action against District Health Boards.

The Nurses Organisation says casual workers have had… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.A high school principal has written to the Prime Minister asking that changes be made to the NCEA system this year - out of kindness to students and teachers.

Steve McCraken from Kaipara College… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Bernie Sanders has this morning endorsed former vice president Joe Biden in the race for the White House.

The senator from Vermont dropped out of the race last week, saying he couldn't "in good… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Resthomes are considering buying their own testing kits, because the Ministry of Health has refused to test new admissions.

Yesterday a third death at Rosewood rest home in Christchurch was… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.More Government ministers will come under the scrutiny of Parliament's Epidemic Response Committee today where the Finance Minister will spell how just how badly Covid-19 has affected the economy.

As… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Grant Robertson will give MPs a more detailed picture today of the potential economic damage wrought by Covid-19.

RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson has more on what we can expect. Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:36 AM.A group of concerned academics are calling for a significant loosening of restrictions as soon as New Zealand reaches the four week mark in its lockdown.

The group says the social and economic… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Last week people were finally allowed to leave the Chinese city of Wuhan after 76 days of Covid-19 lockdown.

Some New Zealanders stuck there have booked the first available flights back home while… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.More than half Air New Zealand's fleet is being parked up at airports around the country.

But shutting down a jet plane is not a straight forward business and it will get more complicated the longer… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Motor racing champions past and present have been paying tribute to Sir Stirling Moss who died at the weekend aged 90.

He's always been hailed as one of the sport's greatest drivers, despite never… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.We've been catching up with people around New Zealand to see how they're spending their time in lockdown.

Today we're talking to Reverend Hirini Kaa who is a Doctor and the Kaiarahi at the University… Read more Audio