A family suffering a double tragedy from Covid-19 are now having to come to terms with what the pandemic has cost them.
A revered Raukawa leader and historian Nigel Te Hiko died on Tuesday at Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit.
The Tokoroa man caught the virus from his older brother Alan, a worker at the Americold storage facility in Auckland who died two weeks ago at Middlemore Hospital.
Both men were in the fifties and their deaths bring the Covid-19 death toll in this country to 25.
Nephew Chris Mckenzie spoke to reporter Te Aniwa Hurihunganui about the loss of another uncle.
