Checkpoint for Monday 11 May 2020

5:09 PM.After weeks of level 4 and level 3 lockdown, New Zealand is moving to level 2 restrictions from 11:59pm Wednesday. Retail stores, malls, gyms, cinemas, restaurants, hairdressers, playgrounds and movie… Read more Video, Audio

5:14 PM.Checkpoint can reveal a woman who tested positive for Covid-19 at the weekend had been in an Auckland jail for 10 days, after refusing to undergo a medical examination when she arrived at Auckland… Read more Video, Audio

5:16 PM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced New Zealand will move to alert level 2 restrictions from 11:59pm Wednesday, with a staggered reopening of businesses.

RNZ political editor Jane Patterson… Read more Video, Audio

5:20 PM.New Zealand is preparing to open shops and businesses as it moves into Covid-19 alert level 2 rules on Thursday (11:59pm Wednesday).

Government spokesperson Grant Robertson talks to Lisa Owen about… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.SkyCity is looking at cutting almost one in five of its staff, in a bid to save $50 million a year as Covid-19 suffocates its core businesses.

With next to no income for its casinos and hotels, the… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.Today's announcement of the move to level 2 on Thursday has brought relief to many on the streets of Auckland.

Patience at level 3 has been wearing thin for some and the timing of the shift is… Read more Video, Audio

5:45 PM.Internal Air New Zealand documents predict it will be two years before the airline can hope to be back at 70 percent of its pre-Covid-19 long haul business.

The airline is flying just five percent of… Read more Video, Audio

5:46 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:55 PM.The family of a lung cancer patient recently returned from Australia are begging for the immunotherapy drug Keytruda to be funded in New Zealand.

They have the support of the Lung Cancer Foundation… Read more Audio

6:09 PM.New Zealand is about to be back open for business, but not all at once and not for gatherings larger than ten people.

The Prime Minister on Monday laid out how the country will move to alert level… Read more Audio

6:10 PM.In Wellington people have mixed about the move to level 2. Some believed the time is right for life to go back to some sense of normality, but others were concerned some have not been following social… Read more Video, Audio

6:15 PM.Josh Thomas owns Woof Bar in Dunedin. Under level 2 guidelines, restaurants can open on Thursday but bars will have to wait until next Thursday May 21 to open their doors.

Josh has found that… Read more Video, Audio

6:25 PM.A collective of social service providers is calling on the government to urgently increase benefit levels further as the poverty rate continues to climb in New Zealand.

The Ministry of Social… Read more Video, Audio