First Up for Wednesday 6 October 2021

5:49 AM.Close to 80 per cent of eligible New Zealanders have now had at least one dose of the Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine. But to what extent are people who are vaccine hesitant going to hamper efforts to… Read more Audio

5:43 AM.After seven long weeks of lockdown, Aucklander's will experience some easing of restrictions today Our reporter Ella Stewart investigated what kind of etiquette park goers should be following when… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.Yesterday Cabinet agreed to the use of vaccines certificates in New Zealand, and they'll probably take the form of a QR code. At the moment they are being planned for use at high risk settings like… Read more Audio

5:29 AM.The requirement of vaccine passports in workplaces is going to become a hot topic for planet Earth in the next couple of years. While most employees in the United States have been happy with vaccine… Read more Audio

5:21 AM.Billions of users of Facebook - and it's other entities, WhatsApp and Instagram went offline for most of the morning. And if being offline wasn't enough, founder Mark Zuckerberg lost around 8 billion… Read more Audio

5:13 AM.October is Breast Cancer awareness month and one Breast cancer survivor, Helen King is launching a different kind of social media campaign. It's called 'This is Breast Cancer' and it features the… Read more Audio

5:09 AM.To Australia, Nathan Rarere was joined by our correspondent Pam Corkery. Audio