Contact Tracing

Why do people believe conspiracy theories? And what do conspiracy theories tell us about the way we view the world? Professor Joe Uscinski is a political scientist and author of American Conspiracy… Audio

The new normal involves greater requirements to register your presence wherever you go - at work, out shopping or for recreation. What does that mean for your privacy? Kathryn talks to Privacy… Audio

As New Zealand moves into level two and restrictions lift, the ability to quickly and efficiently trace our contacts will be critical to keeping any future covid outbreaks under control. Many… Audio

Professor Michael Baker has been a constant and reassuring presence throughout the Covid-19 lockdown period. He returns to answer your questions and ours about the pandemic and the upcoming move to… Audio

Professor Michael Baker has been a constant and reassuring presence on Sunday Morning throughout the Covid-19 lockdown period. He returns to answer your questions and ours about the pandemic and the… Audio

Gary McLean is a professor in molecular immunology at London Metropolitan University who specialises in infectious diseases, immunology and antibody engineering. He joins the show to look at the big… Audio

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the large numbers of Australians downloading a smartphone tracing app that was rolled out on Sunday, modeled on a Singapore version… Audio

Should we have privacy concerns over an app and how do you keep a contact tracing diary? Plus businesses plead for rent relief and cash grants. Audio

Contact tracing is critical to New Zealand's ability to combat any further outbreaks of Covid-19, but is two weeks too late to wait for an app that will assist with that? National's health… Audio

The decision has been made to extend the national lockdown at alert level 4 until midnight next Monday. In the meantime work continues at pace to prepare for what comes next. That means maintaining… 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

Comprehensive contact tracing is being touted as the single most important thing New Zealand could do to stay out of another lockdown. Around the world, many countries are looking at how technology… Audio

Dr Ayesha Verrall, Infectious Diseases Doctor and Epidemiologist at the University of Otago, Wellington says rapid, mass tracing is the single most important thing New Zealand can do to get out of… Audio

GPs and hospitals are bracing for a busy week ahead and GPs are moving to consulting at a distance.From today, where possible GPS are aiming to treat the bulk of their patients online or over the… Audio

6000 thousand tests have been done in New Zealand for Covid 19 since the first case entered the country from Iran on February 28th.Yesterday 1200 laboratory tests were carried out.The test are being… Audio

David Hayman - Professor of Infections Disease Ecology at Massey University - has looked for Ebola in bats, and worked on non-vaccine preventable rabies viruses, says Covid 19 is absolutely serious in… Audio

An epidemiologist says New Zealand can't afford to be complacent about its relatively low numbers of Covid-19 cases, and says he estimates - allowing for population size - that the country is running… Audio