The disappearance of the country’s tourists has forced Cook’s Buses to drastically reduced their schedule, cancelling their anti-clockwise service and Sunday run.

Tupapa’s Julia Evans flew from Rarotonga to Christchurch to give birth to their baby. By the time she went into labour, Christchurch was going into full lockdown.

The remote, crime-ridden community of Aurukun is far, far up in Australia’s northernmost corner.

Twenty-one years’ experience in nursing – but nothing can prepare you for a health response of the scale the world is embarking on this month.

It was less than a month ago that Gaylyn Lockington flew to New Zealand for the birth of her grandson Boston Kea Gray.

There were no laughing cheerful women or bright colourful eis at the Punanga Nui market yesterday morning. It was empty and silent.

The $3.6m project to reconstruct the Avatiu bridge has closed the main road in front of some of the town’s biggest retail business.

Liquor sales are being cut back to 9am to 4pm, Monday to Saturday.

Imagine: A remote tropical island of your own, far from the reach of Covid-19, where you would spend all your days swimming and fishing and relaxing on the beach with your partner.