Kate Hawkesby: Really gutted to see nurses snubbed in the Budget

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 19, 2022 · 3m

A group of people unsoothed at yesterday's Budget is of course the nurses - who've been crying out for support for ages - yet got nothing.

And this comes as our number of Covid deaths passed the milestone of a thousand this week, just as a new round of Covid seems to be slowly taking hold of our colleagues here, and some family and friends too.

You can see why the push is on to get flu jabs before winter really kicks in. With the borders opening and international foot traffic increasing, so too will the traffic of new viruses, according to the experts.

We know already that in Dunedin there’s…