Morning Report

The World Health Assembly has been held overnight with close to 200 countries from around the world taking part.

It's taking place during the worst pandemic in modern history, and that's been the focus of the virtual meeting.

Corin Dann speaks to the BBC's Imogen Foulkes

News from the business sector, including a market report.

Queenstown migrant workers say they're stuck in limbo without more clarity on the sponsored working visa rules.

Up to 10,000 jobs are estimated to have been lost in the resort town with more expected to go after the wage subsidy ends.

English migrant worker Luisa Cardona was working on a sponsored visa at a hotel until she was made redundant last week.

That same day her landlord announced rent on their four person house would return to normal after it was reduced during lockdown.

Cardona told tourism reporter Tess Brunton she's got nothing coming in after the wage subsidy ends.

America's Centers for Disease Control warned on Monday that the United States is on course to record 100,000 coronavirus deaths by the beginning of next month.

Some models predict that grim moment may be reached sooner than June the 1st.

The CDC itself is now in the eye of a political storm, after one of President Trump's top advisers accused the Atlanta-based government body of "letting the country down" in the early stages of the pandemic.

Washington correspondent Simon Marks reports.

News from the rural and farming sector.

A brief update from the business sector.

Acting veteran Mark Hadlow has had to swap the stage for working on a building site in order to keep the cash coming in during the Covid-19 restrictions.

The actor and comedian is best known internationally for roles in Peter Jackson's King Kong and Hobbit trilogy.

He was starring in the Auckland Theatre Company's season of Winding Up, a new play by Sir Roger Hall.

The play was in the middle of touring but had to be postponed.

Eleisha Foon spoke to Hadlow about his desire to return to the stage.

A generation of New Zealanders spending their lockdown in rest homes have memories of schools closing due to epidemics that swept the country during their childhoods.

After polio first gripped New Zealand in 1914, killing 25 people, epidemics occurred every few years until the early 1960s, when vaccines eradicated the disease here the following decade.

Reporter Amy Williams talked to her 92 year-old grandmother - Margaret Whitwell - who was just 10 years-old when her Nelson school closed due to a polio outbreak in 1937, when 39 New Zealanders died from the disease.

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The operators of one of New Zealand's largest heritage railways are worried that the loss of passengers over the lockdown could mean that its historic trains will be mothballed indefinitely.

The Glenbrook Vintage Railway operates antique trains and usually carries around 30,000 passengers during a normal operating season.

It now says that without outside support it could be forced to shed its staff.

Tim Kerwin is the General Manager of Glenbrook Vintage Railway.