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'Close-plus', 'close', 'casual-plus' and 'casual' - the ever-widening net of contact categories in Auckland's Covid-19 response is stirring up confusion.

As officials try to contain Auckland's… Audio

Hundreds of Aucklanders have turned out to Covid-19 testing centres across the city - with more demand than anticipated at one in Ōtara town centre.

That station is a short drive from two new… Audio

Testing stations are expecting another rush today after a casual plus contact of the latest Covid-19 case tested positive for the virus.

Staff and students at Papatoetoe High School are being asked… Audio

Exhausted Covid-19 testers in South Auckland are bracing for a big surge today as more people turn up to be tested.

Staff and students at Papatoetoe High School are being asked to get tested again… Audio

Masks are now compulsory on all public transport. 3

After months of urging from public health experts, the government has now decided that mandatory mask wearing on buses, trains and planes will help… Audio

Students are returning to class today at Papatoetoe High School, following last week's Covid-19 scare.

Three students tested positive for Covid-19 last week and following a testing blitz, the… Audio

A "wealthy, influential businessman" who took opportunities with three young men who came to him for help.

That's how a man on trial has been described to the jury at the High Court at Auckland… Audio

Plans are coming together for thousands of border workers to be immunised for Covid-19 in the next three weeks.

Trucks full of syringes will be heading to the Jet Park MIQ hotel from Saturday, but… Audio

As we've been reporting, genome sequencing has confirmed the three latest Covid-19 cases in the Auckland community are the more infectious UK strain.

But authorities haven't been able to find a match… Audio

A woman employed to help decide who gets emergency entry into MIQ facilities says she wasn't trained and there was no one to answer questions from desperate applicants.

The former worker, contracted… Audio

People coming back to New Zealand who are dying, need specialist healthcare or want to be with a terminally ill relative, are shocked and upset their applications are being assessed by people who… Audio

A woman seeking a fee waiver for managed isolation says it is upsetting officials who requested to see her father's personal medical records, aren't medically qualified.

People who are dying, need… Audio

New Zealanders wanting to return home from overseas will likely have to wait months if they haven't already booked managed isolation.

All 4500 spaces in the country's border hotels are now booked… Audio

An Auckland managed isolation worker has been sacked after a wine delivery to a guest, a note penned on the back of a surgical mask, and what has been described as a "bedroom encounter".

It's been… Audio

The government's one o'clock briefing will be required viewing for event organisers across the north island this afternoon as Covid-19 looms over anniversary weekend festivities.

Thousands of people… Audio

Pressure is mounting on the government to release $24 million earmarked for the tourism town of Franz Josef.

Six months since approving a project to give the town flood protection, the mayor is… Audio

Northlanders are turning out in their thousands to be tested for Covid-19, after a woman in the region tested positive for the virus at the weekend.

Testing stations are open today from Auckland to… Audio

Hundreds of Northland residents have been asked to get tested for Covid-19 after a woman in the community tested positive for the virus.

She had recently left managed isolation and authorities have… Audio

A new, more infectious strain of Covid-19 in the UK has New Zealanders there pleading for Government help to return home.

Epidemiologists here are also asking officials to tighten border measures.

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People desperately trying to get into managed isolation to be with dying relatives are being delayed by a clause asking for their life expectancy.

In some cases hospitals won't provide it - arguing… Audio

A woman whose emergency managed isolation application wasn't processed for a week says the stress of the wait was overwhelming.

People can apply for quick entry into the border hotels on specific… Audio

Overseas New Zealanders are failing to get home in time to see dying family, and are hitting out at the government's slow turnaround of emergency applications.

People should be able to gain entry… Audio

A breakthrough deal to buy the disputed Ihumātao land has brought an end to years of protest - involving hīkoi, petitions, court action, a trip to the United Nations, and a lengthy land-occupation.

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A new investigation into the sex ring known as the Roast Busters is giving one criminologist hope police are moving away away from presuming victims are to blame.

Seven years since the gang prompted… Audio