Details have emerged of the extreme precautions - described as "PPE on steroids"- that were taken to remove the body of a man from Wuhan who died on a cargo vessel on its way to New Plymouth.
Amid Covid-19 concerns, a specialist Search and Rescue team took the man's body off the Hong Kong-registered Yangtze Happiness when it docked at Port Taranaki last June.
Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin has more.