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Grant Robertson says when deciding on moving to level 2 and 3, his focus has been on "what constitutes safe economic activity?".

New Zealanders will get a better picture today of the potential economic damage wrought by Covid-19, as the country prepares to move out of alert level 4.

The prime minister has announced that from midnight tonight every person arriving in New Zealand will have to go into compulsory quarantine. Video

Patrick Gower, the National Party, and several political commentators have spent the week calling for government to quarantine the border. The only issue: the government had already signalled the…

Business leaders are scrutinising the government's decision to only let essential businesses and those with essential goods operate.

Schools around the country will be given help to make sure students can still learn at home under lockdown, when term two officially starts.

Police have reported 76 new breaches of the lockdown rules in the past day, and say breachers are now more likely to be flouting the rules. Watch the latest all of government Covid-19 conference here.

The government has been urged to take measures to boost the cash flow of small businesses at today's hearing of the Epidemic Response Committee.

The National Party leader says he intends to continue commuting between Tauranga and Wellington so he can do his job effectively in an unprecedented situation. Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has reiterated that under normal circumstances she would have sacked Health Minister David Clark.

The opposition leader is defending his decision to commute between Wellington and his home in Tauranga during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Simon Bridges supports the start of discussions about a possible exit plan from level-4 restrictions, as long as the government remains focused on enforcing an effective lockdown.

Questions are being raised about what people returning to New Zealand during the lockdown can and cannot do while in self-isolation.

The outgoing Police Commissioner has admitted police have failed to carry out the level of checks on recent arrivals to NZ, supposed to be in strict self-isolation.

The Police Commissioner and the heads of Civil Defence and NZ fronted in the third Epidemic Response Committee meeting.

More questions were fired at top government officials in the second Epidemic Response Committee meeting.

Increased testing will help health authorities decide how long the nationwide lockdown should last and what other steps are needed to prevent transmission, epidemiologist Michael Baker says. Audio