Covid 19

While the country is in lockdown and New Zealanders are in isolation, everyone will still be able to access essential services.

Supermarkets and pharmacies will remain open, but what else counts as… Audio

New Zealand will be put into a State of Emergency within the next few hours, when Parliament resumes briefly this afternoon.

Parliament will then close down, ahead of the country-wide lockdown which… Audio

Dr Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn again to talk about Covid-19 and answer listeners questions. Audio

Parenting expert Karen Boyes joins Kathryn to share some tips to help parents cope with having their kids home for the next four weeks. Her top one? You are not expected to be the Teacher. You are the… Audio

Being isolated in our homes is something most of us are going to have to get used for the next four weeks or longer.

Some people have a head start, having arrived in New Zealand after the Government… Audio

The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympics Games are being postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The delay, the first ever in peacetime. was agreed between the Japanese Prime Minister and the head of… Audio

Two German tourists in New Zealand are relieved they will be able to head home, after the German government announced it will evacuate nearly 80,000 of its citizens stranded abroad.

Susi Vormwald and… Audio

Business NZ says the government's financial scheme will lift the weight off the shoulders of many small businesses.

A six-month mortgage holiday and helping banks make credit available are just some… Audio

New Zealand is going into lockdown tonight to flatten the curve of Covid-19 transmission.

At the moment New Zealand has 155 cases and probable of the new coronavirus, and 12 people have recovered.

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The Covid-19 contact tracing system is coming under increased pressure and scrutiny.

The Health Ministry says tracing is vital but admits its new national tracing centre is locked into using only its… Audio

The country will be in lockdown from midnight for at least the next four weeks.

Councils will still be providing essential services.

Lianne Dalziel is the mayor of Christchurch, Phil Goff is the… Audio

As New Zealand prepares for Level Four, we break down the latest news and give a Q+A on how the new rules will work Audio

Two-thirds of New Zealand's Covid-19 cases so far are in older people but the patterns are still too "idiosyncratic" to draw any strong predictions from, a researcher modelling the virus says.

New… Audio

Around 800,000 children are about to learn that there's no escape from school work - even during a global pandemic and national lockdown.

They've been ordered home for nearly five weeks and today… Audio

Families are asking for clarity around care arrangements for children whose parents are separated.

With the lockdown coming into place tonight there are questions about what will be allowed and what… Audio

Worried parents from an Auckland secondary school are trying to work out how to best isolate their children after the whole school was declared closed because of coronavirus.

There are now four… Audio

Germany is organising mercy flights to repatriate its citizens from New Zealand.

The first flight is expected to arrive on Friday.

Thomas Sparrow is our correspondent in Berlin. Audio

The Tokyo Olympic Games are being postponed.

The games were due to begin on 24 July will now take place no later than next year's northern hemisphere summer.

The delay, the first ever in peacetime… Audio

Parliament is being suspended for almost five weeks after urgent business is dealt with today.

A new cross-party committee has been set up to allow for continued scrutiny of the government's Covid-19… Audio

Hospitals and medical centres could face a shortage of doctors and nurses tomorrow.

That's the warning of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists which says there hasn't been enough time for… Audio