Covid 19

As New Zealanders brace for a global downturn due to Covid-19, the Deputy Prime Minister is promising a rescue package "more significant" than any other he's seen around the world.

Only goods and workers can pass, with France also warning its situation is "deteriorating fast".

A Christchurch woman going into isolation after returning from a honeymoon in Italy is criticising Australian border restrictions. Audio

The travel ban will be a major blow to the economy, and the prime minister will announce a relief package this week.

The hospitality and tourism industries are scrambling to keep up with fallout from the spread of Covid-19, and airlines are asking for only urgent inquiries.

The House - Quarantines, travel bans and self-isolation; but what would happen to Parliament if there is a domestic lock-down? Audio

Jet2 planes heading to Spain were turned around in mid-air earlier as the airline cancelled all flights to the mainland, Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands because of coronavirus.

An infectious disease expert believes it will be months before the Covid-19 pandemic is contained. Audio

The mayor of one of the country's busiest tourism destinations says the Covid-19 travel restrictions will have a devastating effect.

As of midnight tomorrow every person arriving in New Zealand apart from those coming from the Pacific islands will have to self- isolate, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Video

Finance Minister Grant Robertson is tempering expectations about whether he will follow Australia in rolling out a major Covid-19 stimulus package, saying his focus right now is on targeted support.

Ten people have died in the collapse of a hotel in the Chinese city of Quanzhou with authorities still searching for 28 people, Chinese state media are reporting.

Health authorities in Tasmania say a man in Hobart who contracted coronavirus did not follow instructions to self-isolate, instead going to work at a major hotel.

Italy is set to lock down people in the region of Lombardy and 11 provinces in the north and the east of the country, a total of at least 16 million people.

Australian health authorities are "flabbergasted" a doctor who recently returned from the United States with flu-like symptoms continued to work treating about 70 patients before becoming the…

A fifth case of the Covid-19 coronavirus has been confirmed in New Zealand as 43 North Shore Hospital staff go into self-isolation. Video

Twenty-one people aboard a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco have tested positive for Covid-19 coronavirus, US officials say, as the disease was reported in half a dozen new US…