Morning Report

Health fears and lack of demand are likely to keep many early childhood centres shut when schools partially reopen next week.

Sector leaders say many centre owners and teachers are still not… Read more Audio

It would be anyone's worst nightmare: being stuck on a cruise ship, confined to your cabin, because more than half of the people on board have Covid-19.

But a mere two weeks ago, that was the… Read more Audio

An Invercargill woman fighting for her life in Dunedin hospital and five of her family members still don't know how they got Covid-19.

The family is believed to be among the rare cases of community… Read more Audio

The secretive US data firm Palantir run by billionaire and New Zealand citizen Peter Thiel is in talks with the Government here about combating Covid-19.

Palantir has worked for spy agencies in the… Read more Audio

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

Germany has approved a human clinical trial in the search for a Covid-19 vaccine.

Two hundred people will receive the vaccine, developed by the German biotech company BioNTech.

The trial is only the… Read more Audio

Almost a month after other countries started repatriating their citizens from India, the New Zealand Government is this week getting its first plane off the ground.

Two weeks ago Germany had already… Read more Audio

Business New Zealand chief executive Kirk Hope says banks aren't making it easy for small and medium-sized operators to access loans through the Government's guarantee scheme.

The Finance Minister… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

Spain's nationwide lockdown - which started on 14 March - has been extended until the middle of May.

But there's some relief for the country's children, who will be allowed outside for walks from… Read more Audio