Christopher Luxon on Chapter Zero Climate Forum policy announcement. Video / NZ Herald

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is setting up a website for Kiwi to raise concerns about supermarket price rises during the coronavirus lockdown.

There are 76 new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand, Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says. 63 have now recovered. There are 589 total cases now.

"It gives us a sense of hope," says a doctor after a mystery gift to her clinic.

New Zealand has its first death linked to coronavirus. The death was a woman in her 70s in Greymouth Hospital early this morning. She tested positive for the virus on Friday morning.

There have been 83 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in New Zealand overnight. That brings the total number of cases to 451. 50 people have recovered but 12 people are in hospital.

The wage subsidy scheme the Government launched to help coronavirus-hit workers could cost as much as $12 billion.

Question time live from Parliament

New Zealand has another 85 new coronavirus cases today and one patient is now being treated in a hospital intensive care unit.

Brenton Harrison Tarrant admits that he was the lone gunman who murdered 51 Muslims at two Christchurch mosques on March 15 last year.

Ardern said the lockdown was "broadly" running smoothly so far, having only being announced on Monday. The Government's coronavirus alert level 4 came into effect at 11.59pm yesterday and will be in place for at least four weeks.

There are 78 new cases of Covid-19, including 73 confirmed cases and five new probable cases, Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says. The new cases bring the total number of confirmed or probable infections to 283.

Opposition leaders pose questions of PM Chris Luxon

GCSB speak to media after China-backed hackers got into Parliament's network. Video / NZ Herald

Judith Collins is talking to media after China-backed hackers got into Parliament's network.

Bruce Nickel's teddy bear creation is enough to make you do a double take.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has one simple message for Kiwis - "New Zealanders should act as if they have Covid-19" and stay at home. "Breaking the rules could kill someone close to you."

A state of emergency has been declared in New Zealand after 50 more coronavirus cases were confirmed today.

The Government has announced a six-month mortgage holiday for those whose incomes have been affected by Covid-19.

There are 40 new cases of coronavirus confirmed in New Zealand today. Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield told reporters there were also three new probable cases. There were 155 cases of confirmed and probable cases, and he said the daily tally would now include probable cases.

The competition became one of the last professional contact sports to shut down in response to the outbreak, suspending its 16-team competition last night.

Covid-19 coronavirus: What you need to know about Monday's big developments.

New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown will be managed by a leadership team of some of the country's top officials. That team is Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health, Sarah Stuart-Black, Director of Civil Defence Emergency Management, Mike Bush, Commissioner of Police, and Dr Peter Crabtree.

Schools and non-essential services across New Zealand will be closed for the next four weeks after the Government put the country in lockdown to try to stop the spread of coronavirus.

New Zealand has 36 new confirmed cases of coronavirus today. This takes the total number of cases in this country to 102. Over half of them are directly linked to overseas travel - people who have returned to New Zealand recently.

New Zealand has 14 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases to 66. Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says there are four probable cases.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has introduced an alert system as the country fights Covid-19.

Focus Live: New Zealand now has 14 new cases of Covid-19, taking the total number of cases to 53. It is the biggest jump in cases in a single day so far.

Focus Live: There are 11 new cases of coronavirus in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health says. Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said that brought New Zealand's total to 39 positive cases.

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