Morning Report for Thursday 30 April 2020

6:08 AM.The US now has more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases, and 58,500 deaths, more than the total number of Americans killed during the Vietnam War.

While the number of Covid-19 numbers hits… Read more Audio

6:24 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

6:26 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:44 AM.A health and safety consultant says Worksafe is being too slack on businesses breaching Alert Level 3 restrictions, jeopardising any move to Level 2.

The Government says its new compliance team of… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Coronavirus cases in the United States have topped 1 million, and 58,500 people have died - that's more than the total number of Americans killed in the Vietnam war.

It's bad news on the economic… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.Complaints are flooding in about businesses breaching Alert Level 3 restrictions meant to squeeze the life from Covid-19.

There is uncertainty and disbelief around who's policing the breaches and if… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.Critics say Workplace is not doing enough to police and enforce the rules for organisations working under Alert Level 3.

Jo Pugh, the head of Worksafe's workplace inspectors speaks to Gyles Beckford.

7:24 AM.A terminal cancer patient has spent days in a half-full hospital waiting to have a procedure that should have taken an hour.

Some doctors have been urging hospitals to get back to business as usual… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.As complaints flood in of businesses breaching Alert Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions there's uncertainty about who will clamp down on them.

The Government has set up a new investigation team - however… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.An immigration consultant is predicting an entrenched underclass of unlawful workers will emerge unless the Government provides emergency benefits to unemployed immigrants.

.About one in ten of the… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.A Taranaki business owner is warning leaseholders to read the fine print of their contracts after being asked to pay his rent in full despite a clause in his lease allowing for a rent cut if he… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Small businesses are crying out for government assistance, including a rent subsidy for all commercial tenants. The government is still considering a number of measures to help them out.

That can't… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Residents in the Auckland suburb of Remuera say they're being plagued by dead eels, sewage floating down streams and smells so pungent it makes them gag.

The waterways around Hobson Bay have become a… Read more Audio

8:08 AM.Blatant breaches of lockdown rules are happening at fast food restaurants as customers and staff struggle to keep their distance.

That's the claim of Unite Union's national secretary Gerard Hehir… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.There are claims fast food businesses are breaking social distancing rules less than a week after opening under Alert Level 3.

Unite Union says staff are breaking the rules as staff and customers… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.The head of a small South Island forestry crew says he's had to find an extra $100,000 in order to pay wages during the lockdown.

Like many New Zealanders, about 40,000 forestry workers were back on… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.As the health system reels in the face of Covid-19, doctors say the time is right for serious reform.

This morning we're reporting the plight of a terminal cancer patient who spent days in a… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Business and trade experts are calling for caution as Winston Peters told parliament "if we can grow it or make it" we should.

But they also say the idea has some merit and is worthy of… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:44 AM.School around the country are getting used to the new Covid-19 normal - juggling tiny classes with online teaching.

Almost 12,000 students returned to school yesterday, far fewer than expected under… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.International netballers are among those trapped in and locked out of New Zealand due to Covid-19.

As borders closed quickly around the world in response to the pandemic import players in premiere… Read more Audio