Vaccine

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield joins the show as the country's first ever 'vaxathon' takes place  with the target of getting a further 100,000 eligible people vaccinated with either… Audio

West Aucklander Dawn O'Connor lives in Brussels, Belgium, where she has been based since 2018. She joins Jim for Calling Home. Audio

Denmark - home to about six million people - has lifted all its Covid-19 restrictions. Epidemiologist Lone Simonsen talks to Jim about how the situation is likely to play out in Denmark over the… Audio

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Evan Osnos was living away from the United States for a decade, he often found himself making a case for his home country, despite the grave mistakes it had made… Audio

Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to talk about Prime Minister Scott Morrison's trip to Washington following the announcement of the AUKUS security alliance, how New South Wales… Audio

The government is warning people breaking covid rules will cost them as it increases the penalties people may be forced to pay.

The courts will now be able to sting people up to $12,000 for breaching… Video, Audio

Clinical psychologist and health anxiety expert Dr Steven Taylor's latest book, The Psychology of Pandemics, is a groundbreaking treatise on the subject, but it was a book that many thought would… Audio

As of Friday afternoon, more than 70 percent of New Zealanders aged 12 or over had received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, or are booked in to receive it. But as witnessed in Israel, where… Audio

Last year, he was our most regular -- and arguably most popular -- guest on Sunday mornings, and he's obliging us again this morning after making a welcome return to the show last week. Epidemiologist… Audio

The Coronavirus is here forever. This is how we live with it. That was the rather foreboding headline from a recent article in The Atlantic which quoted a number of leading medical authorities… Audio

Among other topics this morning, our Weekend Panellists will be discussing the current lockdown, how successful our vaccine rollout has been, the All Blacks decision to back out of the Bledisloe Cup… Audio

This week, how information flows in the cell from DNA to proteins, and how scientists have tapped into this to enable a new way to make vaccines using messenger RNA. Audio

The Warehouse Group is among several organisations who have been handing out the Covid vaccine at work.

They're part of a group trialing the at-work pilot - meaning their workers don't have to go far… Video, Audio

Wellingtonian Sean Barry lives in Yasamal, which is a 10 minutes' walk from the centre of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. A teacher by trade, Sean lives in an apartment with his wife Jamila and… Audio, Gallery

Government Covid-19 business adviser Rob Fyfe reckons more relaxed border restrictions now all ride on New Zealand achieving high vaccination rates.

And he says while the government scores about an… Video, Audio

Annika joins Kathryn to look at the Covid crisis in New South Wales, where a record 356 new cases were identified, 254 of whom were infectious while in the community. Hundreds of people have been… Audio