Morning Report

Two German tourists in New Zealand are relieved they will be able to head home, after the German government announced it will evacuate nearly 80,000 of its citizens stranded abroad.

Susi Vormwald and… Read more Audio

Business NZ says the government's financial scheme will lift the weight off the shoulders of many small businesses.

A six-month mortgage holiday and helping banks make credit available are just some… Read more Audio

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

New Zealand is going into lockdown tonight to flatten the curve of Covid-19 transmission.

At the moment New Zealand has 155 cases and probable of the new coronavirus, and 12 people have recovered.

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The Covid-19 contact tracing system is coming under increased pressure and scrutiny.

The Health Ministry says tracing is vital but admits its new national tracing centre is locked into using only its… Read more Audio

The country will be in lockdown from midnight for at least the next four weeks.

Councils will still be providing essential services.

Lianne Dalziel is the mayor of Christchurch, Phil Goff is the… Read more Audio

The New Zealand Olympic Committee chief executive Kereyn Smith says kiwi athletes are largely relieved by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to next year. Audio

Two-thirds of New Zealand's Covid-19 cases so far are in older people but the patterns are still too "idiosyncratic" to draw any strong predictions from, a researcher modelling the virus says.

New… Read more Audio

Around 800,000 children are about to learn that there's no escape from school work - even during a global pandemic and national lockdown.

They've been ordered home for nearly five weeks and today… Read more Audio

Families are asking for clarity around care arrangements for children whose parents are separated.

With the lockdown coming into place tonight there are questions about what will be allowed and what… Read more Audio

Worried parents from an Auckland secondary school are trying to work out how to best isolate their children after the whole school was declared closed because of coronavirus.

There are now four… Read more Audio

Germany is organising mercy flights to repatriate its citizens from New Zealand.

The first flight is expected to arrive on Friday.

Thomas Sparrow is our correspondent in Berlin. Read more Audio