Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately.

Dr Denis Muller discusses the patterns he's seeing in the media covering of the Covid-19 crisis in Victoria, asking how the reporting has gone from impact and response to a focus on the blame phase.

With predictions about 250 jobs are being lost in Auckland each day the city is in lockdown level three, many companies are now more vulnerable than they were before the first lockdown back in March.

Georgia Urquhart grew up on Gray's Hills Station in the Mackenzie Basin which boasts a merino stud that she has become increasingly involved with. Karyn speaks with Georgia about her drive to get more young people involved in the merino industry.

Auckland teachers and principals are divided over whether to bring some of their Year 12 and 13 students back to class.

Today there have been further twists and turns throughout the day from Government ministers and officials about the latest coronovirus cases in the Auckland community as well as managed isolation and quarantine.

The BBC's Rob Hugh-Jones speaks with Karyn from London about the US Democratic Convention kicking off this week, as well as an update on the events in Belarus, and the verdict in a trial in Beirut of the assassination of former leader of Lebanon, while the city continues to reel from the massive warehouse explosion earlier this month.

New Zealand's Covid tracing app has seen a huge surge in downloads over the past few days with more than 1.37 million people now registered.

A new nationwide subsidy to cover the period Auckland is in alert level 3 is being rolled out on top of the existing wage subsidy extension as well as access to the sick leave support scheme. The Finance Minister Grant Robertson says because of the Auckland situation many businesses face massive revenue drops. Karyn speaks with chief executive of Business NZ, Kirk Hope, about the wage subsidies.

There's been a lot of discussion in Government announcements this week about the role of genomic testing in tracing this new outbreak of community transmission. But what is genomic testing, and how can it help? Dr David Welch is a senior lecturer at the Auckland University's school of computer science, and he joins me now to explain.