Morning Report

The government is battling Covid-19 on multiple fronts.

Numbers are growing in what could be come the biggest Covid-19 cluster yet, there's a mystery transmission case, and police checkpoints in… Read more Audio

The North and South rugby squads appear unlikely to be able to assemble in full with the Auckland based players yet to receive government clearance to travel to Wellington. Read more Audio

A global giant at the centre of controversies over facial recognition technology in the US and UK, is working closely with the New Zealand Government.

The Tokyo-based NEC is updating the country's… Read more Audio

Businesses have just a few hours left to make the government's Covid-19 Tracer QR code a feature of their doors or reception areas, before it becomes mandatory.

The government says there's been more… Read more Audio

A person in managed isolation at Auckland's Rydges Hotel says guests are under much tighter restrictions since a hotel worker tested positive for the coronavirus.

Officials are stumped about how the… Read more Audio

The infected Rydges Hotel maintenance worker who has tested positive for Covid-19 remains a mystery.

Genetic sequencing has linked his case to the same strain of virus found in a woman who stayed at… Read more Audio

A man labelled one of New Zealand's most notorious killers has lodged an appeal against his murder convictions, which his team of high profile justice campaigners claims is a gross miscarriage of… Read more Audio

National Party leader Judith Collins has blasted the government over a lack of testing of front-line border workers.

"This is a massive failure for the government, now we've got a lockdown," she told… Read more Audio

Police have been scrambling to ease pressure at the 13 checkpoints in North and South Auckland under Alert Level 3 restrictions.

Some of those travelling are reporting that things have improved in… Read more Audio

Health Minister Chris Hipkins is facing a puzzle trying to work out how Covid-19 made its way back into the community in Auckland.

First a group of four tested positive with no link to international… Read more Audio

A special type of blood test could give vital clues as to how an isolation hotel maintenance worker got Covid-19 from an infected guest he had never met.

Health officials are stumped and are being… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio