20 Aug 2021

Covid-19: Cabinet to make alert level 4 call today

From Morning Report, 7:18 am on 20 August 2021

People outside Auckland and Coromandel find out today if they'll be staying in alert level 4.

Cabinet meets today to make that decision which will be announced at 3pm on Friday.

At least one public health expert is warning the entire country should stay in a hard lockdown until it's certain there is no community transmission beyond Auckland's borders.

Here's political reporter, Katie Scotcher.