19 Aug 2020

Covid-19: Essential goods delayed at police checkpoints

From Morning Report, 8:16 am on 19 August 2020

Some essential employees are not making it to work because of delays at Auckland border checkpoints.

Those seeking exemptions from the Ministry of Health to permit their drive to work are being left waiting for days on end for the right paperwork.

Rod Alexander oversees specialist distribution services for food production, engineering and medical use, and says staff are having trouble even getting to work.

It means some deliveries of essential good have been deferred.

He speaks to Corin Dann.