Morning Report for Friday 13 November 2020

6:11 AM.Thousands of Aucklanders who work in the CBD are being urged to work from home today as health officials work round the clock to track the source of a new mystery community case.

The woman who caught… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.The confirmed case of Covid-19 visited several places in central Auckland while they were potentially infectious before they started displaying symptoms on the 9 November.

People who were at those… 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

6:38 AM.An Auckland man was turned away from two drive-in testing centres despite telling health workers that he lives in the same building as the city's latest community Covid-19 case.

The new positive case… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.Auckland is once again on high alert for Covid-19 after a central city resident tested positive for the virus with no clear link to managed isolation or the border.

Anyone who works in the CBD has… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.Far fewer people have applied for a special Covid-19 unemployment benefit than first forecast.

The 12-week payment began in June, and covers people made redundant between March and October because of… Read more Audio

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

7:09 AM.Aucklanders are anxiously waiting to find out today if they'll have to deal with another Covid-19 clampdown as health officials work round the clock to contain a new mystery community case.

They have… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.Auckland is once again on high alert for Covid-19 after a central city resident tested positive for the virus with no clear link to managed isolation or the border.

Anyone who works in the CBD has… Read more Audio

7:16 AM.Occupants at the Vincent Residences apartment block have been told to self-isolate and get tested for Covid-19.

It comes after one person living in the building tested positive for Covid-19. Chen Liu… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.The Minister of Covid-19 Response Chris Hipkins says he's yet to be notified of any more cases of Covid-19 overnight after a mystery case popped up yesterday.

A woman in her 20s was revealed to have… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.Aucklanders are anxiously waiting to find out today if they'll have to deal with another Covid-19 clampdown as health officials work round the clock to contain a new mystery community case.

They have… Read more Audio

7:29 AM.The retail workers union says the case of Covid-19 - which has emptied Auckland's CBD this morning - shows workers need more sick leave.

The woman was told to isolate after taking a Covid-19 test… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Rising house prices are causing a rift between Labour and the Greens.

The Greens' co-leader James Shaw says the government is being irresponsible for not tackling the galloping market.

In the past… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.Sealord is being accused of not making a genuine effort to employ New Zealanders to work on the two Russian owned trawlers it charters.

One of the conditions it needs to fulfil before it is allowed… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Almost 23,000 people have come off the Covid-19 income relief payment without a job to go to - and thousands of them could still be out of work, without any government support.

The 12 week payment is… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.The Gisborne District Council has voted to install two controversial replicas of Captain Cook's ship the Endeavour in the region.

It got more than a thousand submissions on the question, and heated… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.An audience of hundreds were set to fill the Auckland Town Hall last night.

That plan came to an abrupt halt when news of the mystery case of Covid-19 broke, just a few hours before the performance… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Tiger Woods is continuing where he left off at golf's Masters at Augusta in Georgia. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The government is expected to announce today whether there's any need to change alert levels in Auckland after the emergence of a new Covid-19 case.

It was revealed yesterday that a woman in her 20s… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.The positive community case, a woman, in her 20s, works at A-Z Collections on High Street. 

Anyone who went there between half-past-ten in the morning and half-past six at night on Sunday, Monday, or… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.Auckland central workers have been told to stay at home after a mystery case of Covid-19 appeared.

Reporter Chen Liu is in the central city where she's been talking to those who can't work from home.

8:24 AM.Auckland's latest community case of Covid-19 is a shop assistant who spent Wednesday at work while waiting for the results of a test.

Health officials say she called in sick but after talking to her… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.There's an urgent search on for the source of the mystery Covid-19 case in central Auckland.

Chris Hipkins says early results from the genomic testing shows the latest case might be linked to the… Read more Audio

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

8:41 AM.Auckland restaurants are facing cancellations and empty tables as city workers work from home.

It's an anxious wait to find out if the city will have to deal with an alert level change.

Auckland… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.The lawyer representing a police officer jailed for raping his colleague says there has been a grave miscarriage of justice.

Jamie Anthony Foster was found guilty of groping and later raping a female… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.The government's first statement of national education priorities instructs schools, early learning services and tertiary institutions to make every day use of te reo and tikanga Māori. 

The… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.The All Blacks will at last play a team other than Australia when they take on Argentina in Sydney on Saturday night.

New Zealand will play an under cooked Pumas side - with the Argentinians not… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio