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There are 41 new cases of Covid-19 today, 38 of them in Auckland and three in Wellington. The Director General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the majority of today's are linked to a subcluster at the Assembly of God church. He says there are still lower vaccination rates for Pacific in South Auckland Dr Api Talemaitoga is an Auckland-based GP, who is part of the National Covid Response Group. His South Auckland practice has not been able to vaccinate, and many of his patients have elected to wait until he can administer the jab. Given almost half of the new cases are Pacific Islanders, we thought we'd check in with him again and see how things are going.

Koroi Hawkins presents a daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world.

Julian Wood, Senior Researcher at independent think tank the Maxim Institute joins us to talk about what immigration policy could and should look like as we head out of the pandemic.

Alex Griffiths reports on Afghanistan, which is still dominating headlines around the world, the deadline set by President Joe Biden for US intelligence agencies to report on the origins of the coronavirus is this week and the Paralympic Games begin this week in Tokyo.

More than 200 New South Wales children aged nine and under, were diagnosed with Covid-19 at the weekend. To find out what led to so many children being diagnosed and to answer your questions on Covid-19 in the wider Sydney area, Marylouise McLaws, Professor of Epidemiology with Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control at the University of New South Wales, joins Bryan to discuss what's happening with the Delta variant there.

Peter Lampp is our Sportscaster tonight.

Koroi Hawkins presents a daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world.

We head to Te Waipounamu to chat to Mia Hollingworth from Verdon College in Invercargill and Emily Hargreaves, from Waimate High School.

Associate Professor James Scott is the President of the Geoscience Society of NZ and based in the Department of Geology at the University of Otago. In his role as an editor of the NZ Journal of Geology and Geophysics, he's just put together a two-part special issue which brings together updated knowledge of nearly everything there was to know about volcanology in NZ. The previous go-to book for this information was dated in 1986 - and we've learned a lot since then!

Michelle Grant, president of the Structural Engineering Society of New Zealand joins us as our new engineering regular. Tonight she'll be taking a look at how we engineer buildings in a earthquake zone.