Covid Watch

Time now to mark the week, the little piece of news and current events that’s almost as popular as tomatoes at under $6 a kilo. 

  

The protest: 2/10 

“There are no winners.” 

  

The police and their handling of the protest: 2/10 

“Too slow, too...

According to some experts, we should expect to see the protesters outside parliament for the long haul. 

Chris Cahill from the Police Association says they'll still be there in three months. 

Questions are being raised about the kids at the protest. ...

A “chaotic shambles” is how one reporter this week described the Government’s RAT kit rollout for critical workers - and that sums up the week really - if not the whole pandemic, let’s be honest. 

We’ve got a cumbersome and clunky critical worker RAT...

The Health Minister accepts there has been confusing messaging on whether teachers should be able to access rapid antigen tests. 

Officials say RATs will only be available to school staff if they're close contacts and must be back at school - and...

Calls for teachers to be included in the close contact exemption scheme for critical workers. 

The system allows those workers to continue going to work when identified as close contacts, instead of isolating, subject to daily negative RATs. 

Te Tai...

Did you hear Chris Cahill from the Police Association on Newstalk ZB this morning? 

I couldn’t believe what I heard. 

He was talking about the protest at Parliament and said he thinks the whole thing is a dog’s breakfast - which I don’t think anyone...

Queenstown is the epicenter of Omicron in the South Island, with dozens of businesses and hospo venues having to shut their doors because of self-isolation and close contact rules.   

Queenstown is a prime example of just how tough the tourism and...

There are more calls for help from hospitality businesses every day. 

Now a Hospitality NZ survey says more than 70 percent of cafes, bars and restaurants are looking to cut staff or reduce hours to survive. 

We heard earlier this week what's...

Protesters at Parliament are disappointed no one from the Government's come down to talk to them yet. 

It's the tenth day of the demonstrations and the lawn in front of Parliament is still filled with tents and the nearby streets are blocked with 450...

I don’t have a problem with David Seymour meeting with the protesters.  

The Prime Minister does, obviously, but that's because he broke ranks of what up until now has been a pretty united front from all politicians. But Seymour decided dialogue might...