Morning Report

A third person has tested positive for Covid-19.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield told Morning Report the positive test was returned on Wednesday night.

He says the person who tested positive is not the partner of the woman who was revealed to have tested positive yesterday. He is still awaiting test results.

The disruption or cancellation of qualifying events is one of the New Zealand Olympic Committee's biggest concerns ahead of the Tokyo Games.

News from the business sector, including a market report.

The restaurant industry in New Zealand estimate they're losing $6 million a week in revenue every week because of coronavirus.

Last week Tourism NZ received an $11 million boost to help lift visitor numbers but restaurants haven't been offered a helping hand.

Restaurant Association chief executive Marisa Bidois speaks to Corin Dann.

An infectious disease specialist says more people with coronavirus could already be in the community and might be silently transmitting the disease.

An Auckland woman has Covid-19 but wasn't diagnosed until eight days after she arrived from northern Italy. In that time she took a return flight to Palmerston North.

Work is under way to trace the passengers sitting near her - and anyone else she may have been in close contact with.

She arrived before the requirement for travellers from northern Italy to isolate themselves was in place.

Public health professor Michael Baker told RNZ health correspondent Rowan Quinn similar situations are likely to arise.

News from the rural and farming sector.

A brief update from the business sector.

Tauranga residents will be stung with a 12.6 percent rates rise the mayor says is essential because the fastest growing city in the country has fallen far behind on infrastructure spending.

The council's policy committee voted yesterday 6 to 5 for the increase, which is still subject to public consultation.

Mayor Tenby Powell told RNZ reporter Andrew McRae the rise is desperately needed as the city has fallen behind in funding growth, something he puts down to an abject lack of courage in the past.

Auckland secondary schools are reviewing their pandemic preparedness after two teens were put in isolation after a woman they knew tested positive for the covid-19 outbreak.

The students, who went to Westlake Boys' and Westlake Girls' high schools, have no symptoms and are considered unlikely to have spread the coronavirus.

Richard Dykes from the Auckland Secondary Principals Association told RNZ education correspondent, John Gerritsen, schools are doing what health officials tell them.

New Zealand's Paul Coll has advanced to this afternoon's final of the Chicago Open with a four games win over Egyptian world No.4 Karim Gawad.