Covid 19
Covid-19: Arts agency responds to $115m support to the sector
Funding support for the arts and culture sector is being increased.
A $100 million boost has been announced to cushion the blow of red traffic light restrictions.
They include an extra $70 million… Audio
Covid-19: Long weekends likely affecting numbers - Plank
Infections in the community are moving slower than they have in overseas Omicron outbreaks, but a Covid-19 modeller warns we need a clearer picture.
The University of Canterbury's professor Michael… Audio
Covid-19: Canada truckers blockade capital over vaccine mandate
In Canada, what started as a convoy of truckers protesting the vaccine mandate has turned into into a blockade in the capital Ottawa.
The protestors aren't just opposing Covid-19 policies in country… Audio
Covid-19: Extra rapid antigen test supplies a relief for company
A company supplying rapid antigen tests says the government has finally taken its stranglehold off tests that should have already been available.
The government has announced that it will have access… Audio
Covid-19: Christopher Luxon on party's Omicron plan
The National Party says all school children, teachers and staff would get two rapid antigen tests a week if it was in power.
That was one of several announcements made by party leader Christopher… Audio
Covid-19: Tonga headed into lockdown after cases discovered
The Kingdom of Tonga will go into a nationwide lockdown on Wednesday after two cases of Covid-19 were detected through routine testing at the wharf in Nuku'alofa.
RNZ Pacific News Editor Susana… Audio
Covid-19: Grant Robertson on Bellis, rapid antigen tests
The government is coming under pressure this week as National ramps up its attack on the handling of the pandemic and the media turns its full attention to pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis and her… Audio
Covid-19: More than $100m for arts and culture sector
The arts and culture sector is in for a $100 million boost to cushion the blow of red traffic light restrictions.
A $70 million boost has been earmarked for events that were planned before the move… Audio
Covid reinfections about 10% of England's cases this year, data suggests
With increased numbers of people catching the disease again since the Omicron variant began to predominate, Britain on Monday started incorporating possible reinfections into its daily data.
Colleagues isolating as airport worker's positive result announced
A staff member at Hawke's Bay Airport has tested positive for Covid-19.
Man shares story of terminally ill dad, MIQ issues
After a stoush which has made headlines around the world, pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis has been granted an emergency MIQ spot so can come home from Afghanistan. But of course there are more… Audio
Calls for Facebook to take stronger action on Covid-19 misinformation as antivax leaders banned
A group monitoring conspiracy theories on social media is calling on Facebook to do more to stamp out false and misleading claims about the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccine.
WHO and the global response to COVID-19
Nina Hall, Assistant Professor in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University joins us for her first chat of 2022. She's taking a look at the role of the World Health Organisation and the… Audio
Differing views on vaccine passes in Napier and Hastings
Napier's council is saying little on whether it will mandate vaccine passes at most of its public facilities, despite its twin city Hastings doing it with a growing number of cases in the region.
Murupara doctor suspended from Friday
Murupara's GP of 30 years standing, Dr Bernard Conlon, is to be suspended from practising medicine as of Friday.
National Party calls for 'change in mindset' to cope with Omicron
National is calling for a new strategy as New Zealand prepares for a wave of Omicron cases, including opening the border immediately to fully vaccinated New Zealanders and twice weekly rapid antigen…
How are Wellingtonians living under Omicron?
Two years into the pandemic and with Omicron expected to be widespread in the community soon, New Zealanders are adapting to a 'new normal'.
Our reporters Soumya Bhamidipati and Samuel Rillstone took… Video, Audio
Farmers desperate for machinery workers before cows go hungry
Two weeks - that's the deadline a rural contractor is setting the government to follow through with their December promise to allow 200 skilled machinery operators into the country to help with the… Video, Audio
Iwi eye back-country stations in bid to lift Māori vaccination rate
A mobile Covid-19 team in Rangitīkei will head into back-block farm stations in the drive to close the vaccination gap for Māori as the country braces for Omicron.
NZ secures enough RATs to deal with widespread outbreak - Deputy PM
Watch: A total of 123 million rapid antigen tests have been ordered through to June, and the government says it has enough on order to deal with a widespread outbreak.
