Covid-19
How to handle your sexual health in lockdown
Many sexual health services aren’t open during lockdown. What do you do if you need to get a refill of the pill, an IUD removal, and…
We asked an IT guy what to do if your tech breaks during lockdown
With all the tech repair places closed, many of us are living in fear of our laptops breaking. We wouldn’t be able to work, or even…
Covid-19 Live Updates: Day 7 of Lockdown
We're now a week into our nationwide lockdown. If you're looking for just the key, verified facts, check in here for rolling live updates.This live updates…
How are New Zealanders going to get high during lockdown?
With lockdown now in full effect, drug stock is drying up around the country. We spoke to three New Zealanders to find out how they’re getting…
Five tips to shop normally at this abnormal time
It can be hard not to over-buy at the supermarket at the moment. Lines to get in the door can be half an hour long, and…
Covid-19 Live Updates: Our First Weekend in Lockdown
It's the first weekend of our 4-week nationwide lockdown. If you're looking for just the key, verified facts, check in here for rolling live updates.
1:00pm Sunday,…
Supermarket workers tell us about being on the front line of Covid-19
Supermarket workers are risking their health to keep us fed. Re: asked three workers how they’re coping and what they need from us to help them…
Opinion: Otago University fucked up with Covid-19
Doing the bare minimum until the last second is fine for assignments, but not for pandemic responses, argues Erin Gourley in this opinion piece originally published…
Is it time for a Universal Basic Income?
A Universal Basic Income is the idea that every citizen should receive a regular guaranteed payment from the government - irrespective of income, status or circumstance.…
Eight Aucklanders tell us the last thing they bought before lockdown
New Zealand is two days into a four-week lockdown to stop the spread of Covid-19. The only shops open for the next month are supermarkets, pharmacies…
In photos: NZ's empty streets at rush hour
At 11:59pm on Wednesday, 25 March, New Zealand went into a nationwide lockdown. Here are some photos taken by Re: journalists of the scenes about town…
One poem for every day I've been in isolation
After going into self-isolation on the 16th of March because he and his flatmates all have autoimmune diseases, poet Dominic Hoey decided to write a poem…
Here's a list of books to help you escape from this Covid-19 nightmare
We all have a lot of time on our hands now that we’re in lockdown. Some of you might want to read dystopian fiction or watch…
Stranded backpackers struggle to get home from New Zealand
After her fourth ticket back to the United Kingdom had been cancelled, Lara Suleyman from Kent made a plea on social media for the British government…
What it’s like to travel across the country hours before lockdown
Over the weekend Re: journalist Baz Macdonald needed to travel home to Invercargill for his grandma’s funeral. Back in the distant past of three days ago,…
How can we predict the spread of Covid-19?
On Monday 23 March, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said without Level 4 measures, medical modelling showed Covid-19 would kill tens of thousands of New Zealanders. Genevieve…
We spoke to uni students scrambling to get home before lockdown
People are flooding to ferries and planes to get across the Cook Strait before lockdown. Students say tickets to the North Island sold out in minutes…
Covid-19 Live Updates: 24-25 March
As we approach our 4-week nationwide lockdown period, starting at 11:59pm tonight, the government releases more information on what that period will look like. If you're…
Missing out as others buy groceries to feed 10 million
As New Zealand escalates its response to Covid-19, panic-buying at supermarkets continues to cause problems. Last week, Countdown reported it sold enough food to feed 10…
The empty streets of Christchurch in photos
On Monday afternoon, the Prime Minister announced that by midnight Wednesday the entire country would go into lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19. This is…
Work From Home Bingo
Lots of us are working from home now, which means... video conferencing!
Those who've dipped their toes into video conferencing before our present WFH times will know…
Covid-19 Live Updates: NZ will go into 4-week lockdown (Monday 23 March)
Right now, there's a flurry of information - some true and some false. If you're getting a bit fatigued and just want the key, verified facts,…
Covid-19 Live Updates: 21-22 March
Right now, there's a flurry of information - some true and some false. If you're getting a bit fatigued and just want the key, verified facts,…
Asian supermarket owners talk to us about the coronavirus
“Why don’t we just forget about the origins of the virus and people here get together and wisely overcome this crisis. Otherwise we’ll end up killing…
5 ways to keep your social life going from a distance
The Ministry of Health’s Director General Dr Ashley Bloomfield said he’s no longer using the term “social distancing” and instead using “physical distancing”. That’s because in…
Here’s what you need to know about the COVID-19 support package
Today the government announced a financial support package to help our economy, health sector and workers get through coronavirus. Here’s what you need to know.
It’s a…