By RNZ
Wellington City Council has been forced to limit and halt services such as roading and recycling, as Covid-19 sweeps through its workforce and contractors.
Council head of infrastructure Siobhan Procter said the council has been forced to focus on urgent reactive maintenance only.
About 40 per cent of its usual roading contractors are unavailable because of Covid-19, so they have been forced to call in backup teams to fix urgent roading problems.
"So if there are safety issues on the transport corridor we're addressing those first, but there is going to be a flow-on impact to projects.