Morning Report

Modelling on the way coronavirus spreads and how different actions could change that is one the key pieces of information Cabinet will consider when deciding whether to drop the country to Alert Level… Read more Audio

Jacinda Ardern will announce if we are to head into Alert level 3 from Thursday at the weekly post-Cabinet media conference today.

Central to that decision is the efficiency of contact tracing… Read more Audio

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

As many as 30,000 people have missed out on operations because of the lockdown.

Public hospitals stopped a lot of their non-life threatening surgery as they prepared for a possible wave of Covid-19… Read more Audio

The Health Ministry has been consulting with the state spy agency, the GCSB, about how best to trace people as it works to get its Covid-19 systems up to speed.

A tech industry leader says it's… Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

Germany will start to ease some of its restrictions on Monday after declaring its coronavirus outbreak "under control".

The health minister Jens Spahn credits this to a lockdown imposed after an… Read more Audio

Secondary principals are worried that several more weeks of remote learning for senior students will be bad for those from poor families and those studying practical subjects.

Neil Watson from… Read more Audio

It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio

Scrolling through social media is one way to use up a few hours during lockdown, but are celebrities sharing their thoughts on Covid-19 relevant in the time of crises?

The thoughts of the famous are… Read more Audio