Shaun Hendy

New covid-19 cases linked to the Mt Roskill Church "mini-cluster" are still emerging - so how long will it take the cluster to close? Another case was identified late last night - a pupil at St… Audio

Cabinet Ministers will meet today to review the country's alert levels, which are set to expire this Sunday.

A decision is expected shortly after. ACT Party leader David Seymour says many areas… Audio

Professor Shaun Hendy, whose modelling has guided the Government's Covid-19 response, is warning it's too risky for the country to to move down to Alert Level 1.

Cabinet will decide today whether or… Audio

Covid-19 modeller Shaun Hendy admits he's nervous about Auckland moving down alert levels. The government will meet tomorrow to decide whether the current alert levels will change at 11.59pm on Sunday… Audio

The Government has turned to pen and paper for its newest covid tracking tool to support people who don't have smart phones and therefore aren't using the Covid tracer app.  Audio

Masks should be compulsory in bars and restaurants - not just on buses and trains - according to a leading public health professor.

From Monday people will have to wear some kind of face covering on… Audio

Health officials are still racing to track the the origins of the community outbreak of covid19 as the cluster hits 17 cases.

Since four members of the same Auckland family tested positive, a student… Video, Audio

With the current outbreak in Auckland experts say testing is key to keeping the spread of COVID-19 contained. It's also been emphasised that genome testing will help understand how long the virus has… Audio

Covid-19 could have been spreading in Auckland for weeks before the latest community outbreak was discovered. How four family members got the disease remains a mystery.

They have no known connection… Audio

Auckland University professor Shaun Hendy speaks to The Panel about the data-modelling of Covid-19. Audio

Compared to the months-long period of restrictions New Zealand entered in March, what can a three-day lockdown really achieve?

Professor Shaun Hendy is a physicist from Auckland University who… Audio

The Minister responsible for managed Isolation, Megan Woods, has described a second attempt to enter an isolation hotel as "utterly reckless".

Police say a 33-year-old man forced his way into a… Audio

An Auckland University professor who has been modelling the spread of Covid-19 says it's "concerning" that contact tracing and testing times in the Auckland region has failed to meet the gold… Audio

Modelling on the way coronavirus spreads and how different actions could change that is one the key pieces of information Cabinet will consider when deciding whether to drop the country to Alert Level… Audio

Two top pandemic advisers to the Government say they have not seen crucial Covid-19 data, and some other data is weak, with five days to go till a decision on lockdown.

Epidemiologist Michael Baker… Audio

A top pandemic advisor to the Government says the data around contact tracing is still weak, just five days before the Government will decide whether to ease the lockdown.

Physics professor Shaun… Audio

Physicist, professor Shaun Hendy, heads Te Pūnaha Matatini, one of at least three teams crunching the data on Covid19. Shaun explains explains what it's going to take to beat the virus. Audio

NZ is down to just 29 new cases and plans are underway to start moving down from Level Four. But new modelling suggests the lockdown may need to be extended an extra week or two to fully eradicate the… Audio

New Zealand has 514 cases of Covid-19, with one death and 56 recovered.

Let's look more at the numbers.

University of Auckland Professor Shaun Hendy speaks to Corin Dann. Audio

Health officials say modelling shows that going into lockdown and reducing person to person contact over the next few weeks will slow the spread of coronavirus.

The number of confirmed cases in New… Audio