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10:20 A new hole in New Zealand's border protection against Covid-19

New Zealand's latest positive case of Covid-19 is a marine electronics engineer who tested positive over the weekend after working on a ship on the same day eight Filipino workers boarded it after recently passing through New Zealand's managed isolation. They were not tested for Covid-19. Karyn speaks with epidemiologist Dr Michael Baker about 'border incursion' - the description for New Zealand's latest form of coronavirus transmission. 

Professor Michael Baker, a public health medicine specialist at the University of Otago

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10:30 London calling: repeat lockdowns, police brutality and the US Supreme Court

The BBC's Rich Preston joins Karyn with an update on the global view of Covid-19 and whether re-introduced lock-downs are working. He also focuses on the days of protests intensifying in Nigeria as well as the next steps in the selection process for the US Supreme Court.

Member of the medical team of the Armed Forces of Brazil examines a man of the Guajajara indigenous ethnicity during the Covid-19 pandemic on 3 October, 2020.

Member of the medical team of the Armed Forces of Brazil examines a man of the Guajajara indigenous ethnicity during the Covid-19 pandemic on 3 October, 2020. Photo: Mateus Bonomi / AGIF / AFP

10:45 Dr Khoon Lim: 3D-printing human tissue 

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Photo: CC 3.0 - Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego

Otago University's Dr Khoon Lim is a biomedical engineer who is working towards 3-D printing blood vessel architecture - veins, arteries and capillaries. Karyn speaks with Dr Lim about his research including how this bio-ink can be used to form the basis of blood vessels and human tissues.

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