Covid 19

Our expert on ageing Doug Wilson's back with his take on how the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will affect older New Zealanders and what we need to do to protect them should the virus start spreading… Audio

Brazil is on track to overtake the US and have the world's highest death toll from Covid-19 by the end of this month. Led by President Jair Bolsonaro, who currently has the virus - which he calls a… Audio

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

Covid-19 continues to have Victoria firmly in its grip, with another record-setting day of new cases. Today the state has recorded 428 new infections, and another three people have died. Video, Audio

A new Super Rugby competition minus South Africa, Argentina and Japan but including a Pacific team is to be launched next year. Audio

The Government has ruled out housing managed isolation and quarantine facilities in Queenstown and Invercargill. Our Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown has more. Audio

National's Spokesperson for Infrastructure and Transport Chris Bishop joins Checkpoint to discuss the massive $31b infrastructure announcement. Video, Audio

Tunnels through mountain ranges and an additional Auckland harbour crossing are just some of the big ideas National has unveiled as part of a $31b infrastructure package. The ambitious ideas from the… Audio

UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Kathryn to talk about how masks will be mandatory in shops from next week, hopes are fading for a V-shaped recovery, jobless numbers are expected to spike as high… Audio

Part of the ongoing fight against Covid-19 is a renewed call by the government for New Zealanders to use its Covid contact tracer app.

It has even indicated it may make it mandatory for businesses to… Audio

The risk of another Covid-19 outbreak is growing every day as more New Zealanders return from places where the virus is increasing exponentially.

An economist who first warned the government about… Audio

Businesses in Christchurch warn the worst of the economic fallout from coronavirus is yet to come.

Early estimates suggest there could be up to 36,500 job losses in the city over the coming year.

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The Prime Minister is warning New Zealanders not to be complacent in the battle against Covid 19 and as part of that warning she is quoting economist Rodney Jones.

Jones early on warned the… Audio

A Canterbury GP is warning that new testing guidelines issued to GPs on Tuesday will not boost the rate of people being tested every day.

Currently, around 2000 people are being tested for Covid-19… Audio

Today Minister of Health, Chris Hipkins, urged New Zealanders to keep using the NZ COVID 19 Tracer app amid fears that our contact tracing won't be up to scratch if a second wave of community… Audio

Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about making silk from microbes, how humans twitch their ears when they hear interesting sounds and the importance of herd immunity. Audio