Auckland retail stores should be able to reopen next week, if Cabinet gives a final sign off next Monday.
That will be a move to alert level 3 step 2 in Auckland. In an open letter to the Prime Minister a collective of Auckland business associations have called for an immediate move to alert level 3 step 1.
That would allow retailers, hospitality and close contact businesses like hairdressers to open to face to face customers, with some safety guidelines.
Viv Beck is from Heart of the City - one of five organisation who signed the letter. She talks to Lisa Owen.
