Covid Watch

Why should New Zealanders have to pay for the healthcare of tourists? 

The debate's re-emerged today that instead of tourists coming under ACC, why not make travel insurance compulsory for all tourists instead? 

The borders open up to Australians...

So as we slide towards the Easter break this week there will be many in tourism and hospo keeping their fingers and toes crossed that this week sees the long-awaited move to the Orange Traffic Light.

Remember at the last announcement of a possible...

Will Smith has been given a 10-year ban from the Oscars and Netflix has shelved plans for an upcoming project he was attached to. Are we going too far or is this justified?  

There has been a new division created by Covid-19; those who have had it and...

The creeping pink line still fills me with dread.

Every time I watch it, the viscous juice from the depths of my nasal cavity soaking up the paper, I feel a little panic as it passes the ‘T’.

Is that a line? Even just a faint one? I’ll catch my...

Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people in their homes, fueling frustration as the government tries to contain a spreading outbreak....

Researchers in the Dunedin Study say we need to take into account the childhoods of those opposed to the vaccine.

This world-famous study found that 13 per cent of their group were resistant to the Covid vaccination.

When they dug down deeper, the...

How many times have you heard someone say something like ‘if there weren’t people involved, it would all work perfectly’?

We’ve probably all said it at some point, haven’t we? Because people aren’t machines or computers. You can’t programme people to...

When I checked the ZB website yesterday afternoon to check where we were with the level changes, I didn't feel anything at all when I saw we were going to be staying at red.

I think I'm just desensitized to it all now, but then I'm not somebody whose...

What on earth were you thinking? Shame on you. Orange? A sense of normality? What's the matter with you?

Oh, how ironic when I raised on the programme yesterday the idea that masks would be with us for the rest of the year, many of you thought I was...

Basketball New Zealand is optimistic they will fill the bleachers for their domestic season.

Indoor sports were dealt a further blow yesterday with the government opting to maintain crowd restrictions at 200 people under the red traffic light system....