Covid 19

Otago University epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker joins the panellists to explain why. Audio

Two new community testing centres have opened on Auckland's North Shore, after someone who later tested positive for Covid-19 visited a pub in Greenhithe.

Everyone who was at The Malt between 7.30pm… Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

Air Commodore Darryn Webb is in charge of operations at managed isolation and quarantine. Lisa Owen asked him why the fishing crews have been sharing rooms at Christchurch's Sudima Hotel. Video, Audio

There are 18 crew members infected with Covid-19, out of the 235 who have come to the country for work.

The scale of the outbreak has prompted health authorities to bring in extra measures to curb… Audio

Dr Michael Wang a supply chain expert from AUT on how vulnerable our ports are.  Audio

There are 25 new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today, 23 are cases at the border and two are related to the port worker reported on Sunday. Audio

An update on whether more Russian and Ukranian fishers, who are isolating in Christchurch, have covid 19 is expected within the hour.

Eleven of the 237 fishing crew here to work on boats have already… Audio

Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about the John Snow Memorandum, put forward in response to the herd-immunity Great Barrington Declaration. Tardigrades were always known to be… Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

Russian fishing crews believed to be at the centre of a covid outbreak at an isolation facility had all tested negative and spent fourteen days isolating in their own homes before boarding a charter… Video, Audio

The state of the presidential race with Donald Trump campaigning in places he won handily in 2016, suggests weaknesses in the firewall, but the US President says 'they're going to win and win big'… Audio

The Director-General of Health says a ship now bound for Brisbane is believed to be the most likely source of transmission in the latest Covid-19 case in New Zealand. Professor Michael Plank of Te… Audio

There are no new cases of Covid-19 to report in New Zealand today, the Ministry of Health has confirmed. Audio

Three Port Taranaki staff are isolating at home after coming into contact with an electrical engineer who tested positive for Covid-19.

The man, from Auckland, wore PPE when he worked on two… Audio

How the African continent is coping with covid and police brutality is in the spotlight in South Africa after the fatal shooting of a young mixed race teenager. Audio

No one knows exactly how the world will look in 10 years from now, but Harvard University Professor and author Joseph Nye argues that pandemics like Covid-19 are not always transformative events that… Audio

One of the world's most high-profile economists says the only way New Zealand will stop its burgeoning housing market being a driver of inequality is through wealth taxes. Audio

There are more tigers in captivity in the United States than there are in the wild in Asia, thanks to Americans' growing appetites for posing for photos with big cats and their cubs. National… Audio, Gallery