Covid 19

Schools closing in Fiji as health authorities race to determine if there is Covid-19 in the community. Audio

In her weekly cross to the team at the BBC World Service, tonight Karyn speaks with journalist Audrey Tinline about the number of active Covid-19 cases around the world; President Putin's scheduled… Audio

One last thing on the bubble before we go today. Airports on both sides of the Tasman have marked quarantine free travel between Australia and New Zealand with songs, dances, drag queens and more.

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Fishing guides who've been left with little to no business post-Covid-19 say the trans-Tasman bubble has come too late to make a difference this season.

There are about 130 guides registered with the… Audio

Flights continue to arrive at Auckland Airport this evening. Checkpoint's Nick Truebridge and Nick Monro spent the day watching tearful reunions.

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Emotions ran high at airports across the country today with Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown airports welcoming their first international passenger flights in almost 400 days.

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The Prime Minister has hailed the opening of the new trans-Tasman travel bubble as a world-first milestone.

Speaking at her post-Cabinet press conference, Jacinda Ardern said Tourism New Zealand… Audio

For the first time in almost 400 days international tourists landed at Queenstown Airport, to tears, cheers, offers of free bungy jumps and relief that not only were friends and family reunited but… Audio

Two Auckland isolation hotels are being emptied of returnees pending an investigation into how Covid-19 was transmitted inside the facilities.

Genome sequencing show the virus spread between two… Video, Audio

A migrant family split by the Covid-19 border closure for more than 400 days say they feel no joy about the prospect of reuniting because the separation has been so traumatic.

The government's… Audio

RNZ tourism reporter Tess Brunton and videographer Simon Rogers were on board one of the first flights from New Zealand to Australia under the new trans-Tasman travel bubble today.

Tess joins Lisa… Video, Audio

Excitement, relief and joy - that's how passengers described the feeling of boarding the first trans Tasman flight out of Auckland to Sydney under the new quarantine free bubble.

While the flight… Video, Audio

It was like scenes from Love Actually - emotions have been running high at airports in New Zealand and Australia today as the trans-Tasman travel bubble burst into action.

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Queenstown is getting ready for the first plane load of Australian tourists to touch down. RNZ's South Island bureau chief, Belinda McCammon has been in the resort town for a few days. Audio

Reports have been coming in from overseas about blood clots in people who've been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca or Janssen Covid-19 vaccinations. Vaccinologist Dr Helen Petousis-Harris talks to… Audio

Hundreds of people have passed through Auckland Airport this morning for their first taste of quarantine-free international travel in more than a year. The first green zone flight to arrive from… Audio

Danish native Torbjørn 'Thor' Pedersen is on a mission to visit every nation in the world in a single journey, without taking a single flight. We last spoke to him in September 2020, and over six… Audio

Yachting journalist Rebecca Hayter's book Wild Seas to Greenland details her attempt on the treacherous Northwest Passage with former ocean racing skipper Ross Field. She joins the show to discuss the… Audio

Taihape native Kane Harnett-Mutu is taking haka to Denmark and beyond, though Covid-19 has put paid to that work recently. But he plans to get back to spreading the positive gospel of haka when… Audio

The latest survey from Research New Zealand shows that only half of us are in favour of the trans-Tasman bubble, with fears of Australians bringing Covid-19 into the country being the main reason… Audio