Morning Report for Monday 11 January 2021

8:56 AM.With just days to go until the start of yachting's Prada Cup, the number of super yachts visiting New Zealand is still well-down on what was expected, due to Covid. But the Royal New Zealand yacht… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Health authorities in Australia have increased the amount of time overseas arrivals must spend in hotel quarantine in case the highly-transmissible UK variant of Covid-19 makes people infectious for… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.Pauanui Beach in the Coromandel closed for a period on both Saturday and Sunday, after reports of shark sightings. A woman was fatally attacked by a shark while swimming at Waihi Beach -- about 70… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Some rural communities fear the phasing out of cheques this year is coming too fast, too soon. They say reliable internet must come first before they rip up their chequebooks. RNZ's Tom Kitchin… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.New car sales were down by more than a fifth in 2020. And while that's a little better than the Motor Industry Association anticipated last May, when it thought sales would be down by about a third… Read more Audio

8:32 AM.Eleven people died on New Zealand's roads between Christmas Eve and January the 5th, in what was one of the country's bloodiest holiday road tolls. And the head of the Road Transport Forum says the… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.A second Republican senator has called for the US President Donald Trump to resign following the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters last week.

Senator Pat Toomey, a conservative supporter of… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Searchers have located the black boxes of a plane that went down off the coast of Indonesia at the weekend. There were 62 passengers and crew aboard the 26-year old Boeing 737-500 which was flown by… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.Nurses working at managed isolation facilities across the country have raised concerns about staff shortages and instability. These problems were formally recognised in an audit by the Ministry of… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.New Zealand's managed isolation facilities now house both the highly-transmissible UK variant of Covid-19 and a new strain associated with South Africa. Almost a quarter of the country's live cases… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The Reserve Bank is urgently responding to a breach of one of its data systems. A third-party file service the bank used to store some sensitive information was hacked -- although the bank didn't say… Read more Audio