Wellington has had its first day at Alert Level 2 after a tourist from Sydney visited the Capital last weekend while infected with Covid-19. There are 20 locations of interest listed on the Ministry of Health website tonight. Karyn speaks with Dr Andrew Chen about how important the Covid tracer app is to help track the movements of the infected person while they were in Wellington to establish who has been a close contact.

"It is therefore with huge disappointment that we announce the cancellation of NZ Opera's Wellington Season including The Marriage of Figaro"

In a weekly update of the latest from the news media, Hayden Donnell speaks with Karyn Hay about the media coverage of today's Covid scare in Wellington. He also looks at online comments about this afternoon's 1pm Covid-19 media briefing, and also at the media surrounding weightlifter Laurel Hubbard's inclusion in the New Zealand Olympic team.

The Wellington region is now at Alert Level 2 after an Australian tourist who spent the weekend there tested positive for Covid-19 when he returned home to Sydney. Healthline has taken on extra staff to answer phones staff as close contacts who didn't use the Covid tracing app are being told to contact them. Karyn speaks with epidemiologist, Professor Michael Baker, who will also answer your question.

For our trip round the provinces tonight, we're heading to a tiny town, it's more a village or a hamlet on the West Coast, that's experiencing something of a rennaissance. Blackball.

Hong Kong's top pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, has closed its English language website operation.  Karyn speaks with Tom Grundy is the Editor-in-Chief of the Hong Kong Free Press.

The Health Minister Andrew Little is considering launching an offical review about the slow speed of the roll-out of the record $1.9 billion allocated for mental health in 2019.

From midnight tonight quarantine-free travel will pause between New South Wales and New Zealand for at least 72 hours. RNZ News political reporter Katie Scotcher gives an update from the parliamentary gallery.

Tonight we're looking at the little things we do as we speak that most of us don't notice we were doing. They're called linking and intrusive r's and they tell us a fair bit about the New Zealand English dialect

In their weekly cross with Lately the BBC World Service team gives an update of global news with an outlook for the week ahead. Tonight Karyn speaks with journalist Rich Preston who will talk about big tech in the European court, the mayoral election in New York City, and the future of night clubbing on Ibiza during the pandemic.