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This timeline charts the movements of New Zealand's newest Covid-19 cluster, the actions of health authorities and the government response.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says there is more information needed to find the source of the Covid-19 outbreak. Video

Rotorua residents have flocked to the city's Covid-19 testing centre after it was revealed two positive Covid-19 cases travelled there at the weekend.

After more than 100 days New Zealand has four cases of Covid-19 outside of a managed isolation or a quarantine facility.

One caller says they phoned at 6am today and an hour and a half later, he was 487 in the queue and the wait time had grown to an hour.

Dr Ashley Bloomfield says one of the latest Covid-19 cases in the community - a woman in her 20s - had travelled to Rotorua over the weekend while she was symptomatic. Video

Capacity at Auckland's community testing centres has been boosted and pop-up centres will open after the announcement of four cases of Covid-19 outside managed isolation.

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.