Lockdown

Auckland businesses will ask the Finance Minister for more financial support in a meeting this morning. As the region heads into another fornight in hard lockdown, business leaders say small and… Audio

Cabinet meets today to look at how much longer Auckland and Northland will remain at level four, and also to consider tougher restrictions for businesses under alert levels four and three. The daily… Audio

People are cooking more again now that we are back in lockdown, but many of us are missing (or perhaps craving) the speciality dishes we enjoy from our favourite takeaway restaurants. Former… Audio

Last year, he was our most regular -- and arguably most popular -- guest on Sunday mornings, and he's obliging us again this morning after making a welcome return to the show last week. Epidemiologist… Audio

The Coronavirus is here forever. This is how we live with it. That was the rather foreboding headline from a recent article in The Atlantic which quoted a number of leading medical authorities… Audio

Boaties whose bubbles are roaming the coastline are being told to stay put as the lockdown lingers.

The Department of Conservation says people shouldn't be cruising while the rest of the country… Audio

Despite no cases of Covid-19 in the South Island it will stay in Level 4 lockdown until Tuesday.

As Rachel Graham reports, many there have their eyes set on when they can move to level 2. Audio

Professor Nick Wilson says it is problematic that people with Covid-19 are having to wait a long time before being moved into quarantine facilities.

"There should have been more work on getting these… Video, Audio

Whether it's dance lessons, choir practice or just a general catchup - everything's on hold in lockdown.

So some groups are getting creative on Zoom - not wanting to miss out on doing what they love… Video, Audio

Australia's Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced a short time ago that all children between the ages of 12 to 15 will be vaccinated by the end of the year.

It comes as New South Wales recorded 882… Audio

A max vaccination of New Zealand's school-aged children right now is not possible currently, as there is not enough of the Pfizer vaccine in the country, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says.

Lockdown is working, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says, but as Covid-19 community case numbers are still high, the country is staying in lockdown level 4 until 11:59pm Tuesday 31 August.

After that… Audio

Some families with disabled children are struggling under the lockdown and need more help.

People who work with the children want an alert level 4 rule change so teachers and specialists can visit… Audio

In the South Island people are enjoying - in the safety of their bubble - an early arrival of spring.

Lots of people have been out on their state-mandated exercise lapping up some much-needed vitamin… Video, Audio

Ninety-nine of the 107 cases in this Delta cluster are in Auckland. Just eight are in the capital.

So far no other cities or towns have returned positives for the more transmissible strain.

And the… Video, Audio

The whole country will remain in Covid-19 Level 4 lockdown until the end of the week.

That includes the South Island, despite the fact there have been no cases detected yet.

Bruce Smith is the… Video, Audio

"Delta has a head start on us" - the Prime Minister's words on Monday afternoon before she announced how Aotearoa will catch up.

The whole of the country will remain in Alert Level 4 lockdown until… Video, Audio

The current Covid-19 delta outbreak stands at 72 cases. There are hundreds of locations of interest, and thousands of identified contacts. The contact tracing system is running at 100 percent of its… Audio