Top Stories for Thursday 20 October 2021

Auckland emergency nurses are at breaking point as understaffed hospitals struggle to keep up with demand from Covid cases, an almost record-high 43 Covid patients are in hospital, with predictions Middlemore alone will have 20 infected people arriving each day by next month, secondary schools prepare to reopen to senior students from Tuesday, and car parks are full and shop queues have returned as Northland returns to life at level 2