Morning Report for Tuesday 25 January 2022

8:56 AM.The Coast to Coast has been cancelled for the first time in four decades.

Organisers say it is impossible to run the two-day event under the red traffic light setting.

But they are hoping a one-day… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.The red light has been turned on to stamp out the virus, but it's also stamped out visitors to CBD's around the country.

Cities like Auckland and Christchurch have been deserted as people hunker down… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.New Zealand freeskier Nico Porteous has won his second X Games gold medal in Aspen, Colorado - just two weeks ahead of the Winter Olympics.

For his last drop in, the 20-year-old pulled off what… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.With no rain, Tonga is still blanketed in ash, which some on the ground have described as being like "thick black snow".

Katie Greenwood, from the International Federation of the Red Cross says the… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.The Government landlord can't say how much it's had to pay out in compensation to neighbours terrorised by unruly tenants. 

Kāinga Ora - formerly Housing New Zealand - came under scutiny last year… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.Major events around the country are being called off thanks to stricter Covid-19 rules under the red traffic light setting.

The Warbirds over Wanaka International Airshow has been cancelled for the… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.With the whole nation now under the red traffic light setting there are limits within the hospitality sector and many events have been cancelled.

Supplies, already strained in some sectors due to the… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.Staff at a Motueka medical centre linked to a suspected Omicron case won't have to isolate.

Patients who were at the clinic during the exposure period will. Those who visited Greenwood Health on… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Lab workers are worried about being overrun when Omicron takes hold in the community.

The Ministry of Health claims labs can handle 62,000 tests a day, but that's disputed by the organisation that… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.It's unclear how businesses will cover compulsory leave of at least 24 days for employees who have to go into isolation because someone they live with has mate korona.

Anyone who lives with a… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.More now on growing tensions in Ukraine, where NATO has put its forces on standby in eastern Europe, in what Russia is denouncing as an escalation of tensions.

NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.There's a warning that the world needs 13 million new nurses over the next decade to prevent a nursing crisis and a global healthcare disaster.

A report from the International Council of Nurses says… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.One of the country's major banks says it's finding a concerning number of instances of economic abuse, including people being saddled with someone else's debt, or having no control over their… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Supply chains is something we've heard a lot about over recent months.

But broken supply chains is something we might hear about in the coming months if some of the grimmer predictions about… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.The Ratana faithful are being urged to stay away from the church's annual celebrations and tune into the event online instead. 

Citing Covid-19 concerns, the Rātana Kōmiti Marae has cancelled today's… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.Stocks, oil and cryptocurrencies have fallen overnight in the US. The situation in Ukraine and worries ahead of a US Federal Reserve announcement later this week is being blamed.

The S&P 500 fell 2.4… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Anti-viral medications ordered by the government may not be available until after the peak of this outbreak - if they get approval.

Last year the government announced it had bought tens of thousands… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.Epidemiologist Michael Baker says tough isolation rules around Omicron cases should ease once the outbreak takes hold in the community.

Household contacts of a positive case could end up isolating… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.Representatives from manufacturing, food and grocery, and healthcare are all worried about serious shortages if the self isolation period for close contacts of Covid-19 cases is not reduced.

One… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Senior doctors are concerned about the prospect of returning to work shortly after testing positive for Covid-19.

Auckland Hospital doctors have been told employees could be asked to go back to work… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.Wikileaks co-founder, Julian Assange, has won the right to appeal to the British Supreme Court against his extradition to the United States.

US authorities want Assange to face long-standing charges… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.NATO has put increased forces on standby in eastern Europe, as tensions between the Ukraine and Russia escalate.

NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said a "deteriorating security situation" had… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.Business leaders are warning staff shortages will become much worse now Omicron is in the community.

Employers and Manufacturers Association chief executive Brett O'Riley says while businesses have… Read more Audio

6:10 AM.Large numbers of staff working from home is once again unnerving cafe owners in Auckland's CBD already struggling after months in various lockdown last year.

Even experts such as infectious diseases… Read more Audio