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Checkpoint for Thursday 17 September 2020
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School closed after Covid-19-tested student did not isolate
5:07 PM.A primary school student who was tested for Covid-19 on Sunday, went to school on Monday, and later received a positive result.
Chapel Downs School in Flat Bush in Auckland, is now closed for deep… Read more Audio
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Security boosted at Rotorua isolation hotel after escape
5:10 PM.Security has been beefed up around a managed isolation facility in Rotorua after a man, who had returned to New Zealand from Brisbane, got out of the hotel.
The man was reported missing from his room… Read more Video, Audio
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Where has STA Travel customers' money gone?
5:17 PM.The amount owed to creditors of the failed travel group STA has soared to more than $10 million, with customers told there's little chance of getting their hard earned cash back.
Nearly a month on… Read more Audio
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New Zealand officially in recession as election looms
5:23 PM.New Zealand has officially fallen into its first recession in a decade - with the economy shrinking by the largest amount on record.
Official numbers show GDP - the broad measure of growth - shrank… Read more Audio
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'Weight loss' coffee sellers warned of prosecution - MedSafe
5:27 PM.About half a dozen sellers of a coffee powder marketed as a weight loss product have been told to close up shop or they could face prosecution, after the brew was found to contain potentially… Read more Video, Audio
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Major ethnic pay gap in DHBs revealed in research
5:43 PM.Māori working at district health boards are 56 times less likely to earn more than $100,000 and Pasifika staff are 71 times less likely than non-Maori or Pasifika staff.
Those are just a couple of… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 17 September 2020
5:47 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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'Jobs for Nature' delays blamed for tourism redundancies
5:53 PM.A South Island tourism operator says he could have prevented redundancies if wasn't for delays to a nature-based job creation scheme.
More than $1 billion was earmarked for the Jobs for Nature… Read more Audio
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Universities confused over lectures after Bloomfield's comment
6:08 PM.Comments from the Director-General of Health around whether Auckland university lectures can go ahead next week have caused confusion for thousands of tertiary students - and the universities… Read more Audio
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Covid-19 level 2 limits still hampering election campaigning
6:12 PM.Restrictions on gatherings under alert level 2 are continuing to hamper political campaigning, a month out from the election.
Most of the political parties are giving Auckland a wide berth - with the… Read more Audio
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Selfie photos incriminate phone-pinching monkey
6:28 PM.A phone stealing monkey's accidentally produced some "selfie" incriminating evidence of its crime.
According to the Malaysian phone owner, he discovered videos and pictures seemingly taken by the… Read more Video, Audio