Focus Live: Oil prices have plunged amid coronavirus market slowdowns but when will we be saving at the pump? Video / AP
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says it's "disappointing" that a laboratory workers' union is using the coronavirus outbreak as leverage in planned strike action.
But a senior Apex spokesman denies his union is using the outbreak as leverage and the timing was "just a coincidence".
Apex, which represents DHB Medical Laboratory Workers and NZ Blood Service employees across New Zealand, announced plans to strike this Friday.
Helen Clark has weighed in on Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters’ remarks in Parliament today after he used the phrase “retard comment”. Video / Parliament TV