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Testing for Covid-19 in Christchurch today is to rule out any likelihood of community transmission, the manager of Canterbury's primary emergency operations centre says.

There have been no new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand's managed isolation and quarantine facilities today.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a new daily record of 725 coronavirus cases and 15 deaths.

Thursday marks 75 years since the US unleashed the world's first atomic bomb attack on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the second and last on Nagasaki.

A clinic in South Auckland has experienced another flurry of people being tested for Covid-19 after a man who had been to the area tested positive in South Korea.

Queenstown's mayor says people are rattled after a visitor later tested positive for Covid-19 in South Korea, and a testing blitz is a responsible precaution. Audio

The SpaceX capsule touches down off Florida, in the first crewed US water landing in 45 years.

Melbourne is going into lockdown tonight, as part of sweeping new restrictions to try to stop the rapid community spread of Covid-19 in the Australian state of Victoria, Premier Daniel Andrews has…

National leader Judith Collins is doubling down on trashing a recent poll that put her party on 25 percent support and on saying her comments about prison escapees were a joke. Audio

Protesters have blockaded the entrance to a Ballance Agri Nutrients factory in Taranaki, saying they are preventing the distribution of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.

Tonga are looking to forward to a new home away from home at next year's Rugby League World Cup in England.

It's the third to last sitting week before Parliament dissolves ahead of the election and it's going to be a busy one with sittings extended and happening under urgency.

Tow trucks are being used to get people across a closed part of State Highway 1 in the Far North.

In her first interview with Morning Report as National Party leader, Judith Collins outlined a minor reshuffle, said she's not particularly worried about diversity, and said Michael Woodhouse's fate… Audio

In today's sports news - NRL revert back to biosecurity protocols, United drop points, Warriors players may have to stay in Australia and Chicago marathon canned.

Analysis - The National Party has been thrown into utter confusion by Todd Muller's resignation and now the caucus has to find someone prepared to take a hospital pass, writes Peter Wilson.

The government will next week look at the reinstatement of compassionate leave for those in managed isolation. Watch the latest briefing from Minister Megan Woods and Air Commodore Digby Webb here. Video