RNZ
Three influential New Zealand figures are urging the government to consider reopening the borders, and abandon a total elimination strategy.
Stuff
Steam cleaner prompts evacuation at Jet Park Hotel, which is currently being used for symptomatic arrivals for their two-week quarantine.
People in my field — infectious disease research — are alert but not alarmed about a new strain of flu found by researchers in China. This is what we know so far, writes Ian M Mackay.
Newsroom
After weathering personal scandals and Covid-19 mix-ups, David Clark says he has become a distraction to the Government.
Māori Television
Chris Hipkins replaces David Clark.
Newsroom
Residents of 10 postcodes in Victoria will wake to a month of ‘stay home’ localised lockdown rules today as a fresh outbreak of Covid-19 closes hot spot suburbs.
RNZ
David Clark has formally resigned as Health Minister after recent controversies in his handling of the Covid-19 response.
Stuff
Job seekers in the health industry have the most options as the number of ads rise.
RNZ
Principals want foreign teachers exempted from the Covid-19 border restrictions so they can plug staffing gaps caused by the teacher shortage.
Across the country, cases of COVID-19 are suddenly surging, particularly in states that had begun to reopen.
Newshub
Here are the latest developments from around the world overnight.
Stuff
Queenstown’s night skiing opened with the largest crowd in years, as hopes fade of a trans-Tasman bubble coming to the rescue.
RNZ
The government's new screen sector recovery package - designed to protect jobs and investment in NZ productions in the wake of Covid-19 - includes a $73.4 million Screen Production Fund.
RNZ
Fresh data on the impact of Covid on small businesses finds a bounce-back in May but times are still very tough.
RNZ
Targeted, localised lockdowns like those in Melbourne could be used in New Zealand in the case of a Covid-19 outbreak, the Director-General of Health says.
Stuff
Lack of benefits forcing Kiwis in Oz to make tough choices
Newshub
More announcements will be made in the coming weeks.
The Trump administration says it has locked down nearly the entire supply of one of the only available anti-COVID-19 drugs from the manufacturer for the next several months. That raises questions about access to one of the few treatments available for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, for much of the rest of the world. Remdesivir is the first drug shown to help patients with COVID-19, though its impact is modest. Hospitalized patients given the drug recovered four days faster than those given a placebo.
RNZ
Crossbred wool prices have plummeted to new record low levels in the wake of Covid-19, with some farmers receiving less than a dollar a kilogram for their wool.
1 NEWS
Mr Muller has stated that keeping our border completely closed for the next year onwards is "simply untenable".
The coronavirus pandemic has brought countries to a standstill. In many places, as countries reopen, Covid-19 cases are on the rise. Follow here for the latest.
Newshub
The business community pinned its hopes on the border reopening as soon as possible and says the Govt's failed to hold up its end of the deal.
RNZ
International students won't be coming back to NZ universities next semester, and that isn't sitting well with some.
Stuff
The state of Victoria remains a coronavirus anomaly in Australia with community spread leading to 75 cases in a day.
RNZ
Foreign Minister Winston Peters says New Zealanders who head to Europe on holiday should pay for their two weeks' hotel quarantine when they return.
