NZ's own tracing app on way as Australia rolls out its version
NZ Government promises contact-tracing app will be available in less than a fortnight.
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Govt to spend $100m on housing homeless in motels as Covid-19 bites
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New level 3 changes: More freedom for over-70s despite risk; global deaths pass 200,000
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Editorial: How will history judge NZ's Covid-19 response?
We say: The Government's call to "go hard and go early" appears to have paid off.
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Chch leaflet compares NZ lockdown laws to Nazi Germany, Holocaust
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Govt's fraud investigations unit doing wage subsidy audit
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Whistling in the wind: Bridges locked under the shadow of Key, English
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More than $17m will be paid back to the Govt from businesses that took up the scheme.
'Tsunami' of demand for food parcels, families wait four hours in Māngere
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Medical clinics on 'brink of collapse' as patient numbers decimated
Urgent-care & after-hours clinics say they need urgent funds to continue seeing patients.
Govt officials' attempts to quash official information release foiled
The Chief Ombudsman poured cold water on a plan to suspend OIAs during level 4 lockdown.
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Bloomfield blunder: Officials review language used to describe virus patients
Police also have a warning for Kiwis wanting to sneak away this weekend.
NZ smashes Covid curve with record low cases - Bloomfield apologises to family over death
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Australia could let Kiwis back in first - Aussie PM
The Aussie PM says NZ would be the 'obvious candidate' in terms of a border reopening.
Air NZ crew and airport staff to be tested for Covid-19
The move follows concerns that the border exemptions for air crew were a weakness.
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Dobbed in: Kiwis report 55,000 lockdown breaches, police target holiday spots
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Brink of elimination? Number of higher-risk Covid cases - two
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The PM was at odds with more than a few people during her press conference today.
City Rail Link worksites to reopen under alert level 3
Prime Minister keen to crack on with project in a bid to support jobs.
One new Covid-19 death, PM gives update on level 3
Ardern reminded New Zealanders that we are still in alert level 4.
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Bridges 'politicising' level 4 lockdown extension – Finance Minister
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A man who was out to get milk was reportedly stopped by the Mob at an illegal checkpoint.
Govt so far approved 80 per cent of all wage subsidy applications
More than $10 billion has been paid out to more than 1.6 million people so far