Checkpoint for Monday 11 October 2021

5:08 PM.Mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations will now be required for large numbers of people working in the health and education sectors by the start of the year.

Health sector workers need to be fully… Read more Video, Audio

5:18 PM.Auckland will remain in the current alert level three restrictions for at least another week.

Our reporter Nick Truebridge joins us now from the central city.

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5:22 PM.Northland will stay in level three until at least Thursday. Residents there are becoming increasingly frustrated as they try to figure out the movements of a Covid positive Auckland woman who visited… Read more Video, Audio

5:26 PM.While students around New Zealand will return to the classroom next week, Auckland pupils will spend their ninth week at home with no date or set roadmap for their return.

The government has mandated… Read more Video, Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6276516467001 Video, Audio

5:38 PM.Auckland is stuck at alert level 3 for at least another week, with the Prime Minister saying the country is at one of the most challenging moments in the pandemic so far.

Auckland students will not… Read more Video, Audio

5:43 PM.As daily Covid cases continue to climb in Auckland, there are rumblings of rebellion in the South Island and a call to break away.

The separatists now have some allies in high places with top… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.A prisoner from Mount Eden jail is in hospital under guard after becoming ill with Delta, and two others with the virus are in quarantine at the prison.

Corrections says all three of the prisoners… Read more Audio

5:55 PM.Sydney has been celebrating what's been dubbed Freedom Day - but only for those fully vaccinated.

After more than 100 days in lockdown, it's a relief for many - and a shot in the arm for a suffering… Read more Audio

6:08 PM.The Covid-19 vaccination is being made mandatory for teachers and frontline workers at schools and early learning centres.

As well as teachers, GPs, midwives and pharmacists are among those who will… Read more Audio

6:10 PM.NZEI president Liam Rutherford told Checkpoint he welcomes the announcement of mandatory vaccination for education staff.  Read more Video, Audio

6:15 PM.There are serious fears New Zealand's health system won't cope with an influx of Covid-19 patients.

Health workers say the system was already stretched before before Covid, and things won't get any… Read more Audio

6:21 PM.Pasifika GPs on the front lines of the Covid-19 Delta outbreak say they're facing burn-out.

The frontline workers helping protect Aotearoa from the virus say they're overworked and exhausted and… Read more Audio