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Checkpoint for Friday 6 May 2022
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Questions over the 'essentials' in Countdown's price freeze
5:20 PM.There are questions over Countdown supermarkets definition of everyday essentials after it announced a price freeze on more than 600 of them to help people struggling with the rising cost of living.
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Covid tech entrepreneur keen to trial more accurate RAT in NZ
5:08 PM.A tech expert involved in creating the Covid tracer app, is trying to import and trial a new type of RAT test that could be as accurate as PCRs.
New Zealand experts say it could provide cheap, quick… Read more Audio
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Tauranga bus drivers boycott stops for fear of violence
5:12 PM.Tauranga bus drivers have begun a boycott of some stops in the city because of violent incidents and concerns for their safety along their routes.
Last month Checkpoint reported bus drivers were… Read more Video, Audio
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Children eligible but less than a quarter fully vaccinated for Covid
5:22 PM.It's been four months since children aged between 5-11 year olds became eligible for Covid vaccinations but latest data shows less than a quarter have received both jabs.
And with that age group… Read more Audio
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US officials seize superyacht in Fiji linked to Russian oligarch
5:27 PM.American officials have seized a multimillion dollar super yacht moored in Fiji because of its links to a sanctioned Russian oligarch and so called dirty money.
The US blacklisted Suleimon Kerimov… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 6 May 2022
5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6305688048112 Video, Audio
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Some mull travel for treatment as surgery waitlists blown out
5:43 PM.With waiting lists for elective surgery blowing out even further because of Covid restrictions, some are setting their sights on other countries to get the treatment they're wanting.
Rachel Graham… Read more Audio
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NZ schools' remaining coal-powered boilers to be scrapped
5:46 PM.The last remaining coal boilers being used to heat school classrooms are set to be scrapped and replaced with cleaner wood burners or electric heating by 2025.
The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern… Read more Audio
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Owen Franks ready for first rugby test in three years
5:53 PM.Former All Blacks prop Owen Franks hasn't played test rugby for three years but he's not giving up hope of adding to his 108 test career.
Franks played 150 games for the Crusaders and is now set to… Read more Audio
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Ohakune optimistic for winter boom after two quiet years
5:55 PM.Residents of the Central North Island town of Ohakune are optimistic a booming winter is on the way after two years of Covid uncertainty.
And although warnings about volcanic activity on Mt Ruapehu… Read more Audio
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NZ set for warmest winter in history, ocean temperatures high
6:07 PM.New Zealand is set for its warmest winter in history with ocean temperatures in the upper north island still in their early twenties.
NIWA says coastal sea temperatures were unusually warm for the… Read more Video, Audio
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Police urged to apologise for threat over Armenian flag at Anzac event
6:12 PM.A Wellington man who claims police threatened to trespass him from an Anzac Day memorial if he displayed an Armenian flag in memory of genocide victims says it is "shameful".
He says it's kowtowing… Read more Audio