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The Director-General of Health says he is hoping to update the country on Saturday about lockdown timeline.
Newsroom
Elimination of Covid-19 doesn't mean getting rid of it everywhere in New Zealand, the Director-General of Health says
The locations of the 10 new cases of Covid-19 in the South have been released by the Southern District Health Board revealing the largest increase...
RNZ
Home bakers keen to keep busy and fed during the lockdown have pushed demand for flour up 500 percent for one producer. Champion Flour has three mills going around the clock to keep up. There are no grain supply problems and shoppers should see plenty more flour on the shelves by early next week, chief executive Bruce Peden told Checkpoint. Home bakers, or supermarket sales, usually account for 6 percent of Champion's flour sales. But with many bakeries and cafes closed up, it is the home kitchen crying out for flour.
RNZ
The government will allow foreign nationals to travel domestically to get to international airports so that they can fly home.
Newshub
Lower-income New Zealanders have both a higher risk of being exposed to the virus and also of suffering more if they catch it.
RNZ
New Zealand has had its biggest increase in one day as the Health Ministry confirms 89 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases to 797. Watch the latest media conference here.
Newsroom
Was an epidemiologist excoriated for going off script or not being on top of the literature?
RNZ
The lockdown has seen a Whanganui father and forestry worker trade his 3am wake-up call for a "sleep in" and cuddles with his three young daughters.
RNZ
The decision to relax the rules for who gets Covid-19 testing is forcing one District Health Board to try to stem the number of people without symptoms turning up. Follow RNZ's live blog for the latest news.
RNZ
Hutt Hospital has created a new intensive care unit in less than two weeks, as hospitals around the country race to prepare for Covid-19.
RNZ
There's also an order for 500,000 gowns, 30,000 face shields and 50,000 goggles scheduled to arrive over the coming weeks.
Personal protective equipment for front-line health workers is an ethical imperative, University of Otago ethicist Dr Elizabeth Fenton says.
The Spinoff
For all The Spinoff’s latest coverage of Covid-19 see here. Read Siouxsie Wiles’s work here. New Zealand is currently in alert level four. The country is shut down, apart from essential services. For updated official government advice, see here. The Spinoff’s coverage of the Covid-19 outbreak is
RNZ
Nearly a full week into lockdown, testing criteria were broadened, more ventilators were found and help was found for those with nowhere to go.
1 NEWS
The Prime Minister with the latest on the lockdown.
Stuff
The lockdown is driving more people to seek help from foodbanks, particularly the elderly, charities say.
RNZ
Wednesday marks seven days since New Zealand moved into its Level four lockdown and it's been a week like no other. Life across the country has been turned upside down and it's been challenging to say the least. With everyone cooped up at home it's often hard to measure how we're all going, but the numbers don't lie, so our reporter Nita Blake-Persen and cameraman Nick Monro put together this report looking at some of the key figures of week one.
Newshub
Civil Defence is aware Kiwis have been left confused by the functions of the two systems.
RNZ
New Zealanders in their 20s are the age group with the biggest numbers of Covid-19 and are "the vector for transmission", the prime minister says.
RNZ
The number of cases within most Covid-19 clusters around the country have risen in the past 24 hours.
Newsroom
The Finance Minister warns of the long-term consequences from the coronavirus pandemic.
Newsroom
How is Covid-19 spreading within the country? Newsroom is collating information as it's available to paint a picture of what's happening.
Newshub
Cameron Bagrie says COVID-19 will result in "tectonic changes" to our economy.
Stuff
Jacinda Ardern's blunt message for supermarkets running cafes: Shut them down.
