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On Dear Science with Marcus Jones we talk about mysterious blood clots, artificial chloroplasts, and solar panels sucking water from air to cool them down.

Lillian looks into the Covid19 Public Health Response Act that was debated urgently in parliament this morning.

Felix checks in with the various sectors that have been impacted by Covid.

We have our regular Epidemic Response Committee notes and today we hear discussions about finance and the economy, very pertinent with the Budget announcement coming tomorrow.

International Desk gives a profile on the nation of Turkmenistan, as its official statistics does not report any Covid-19 cases.

Although the crisis of Covid-19 is front and centre for Tāmaki Makaurau, we are also in the midst of another crisis in the form of a water shortage. This week on City Counselling, Lillian Hanly spoke to Councillor Richard Hills about what this means as well as the resumption of recycling of Tāmaki Makaurau.

Since we have gone into lockdown, an epidemic response committee has been set up, meeting three times a week to discuss how the government's response has been going so far and here it could be better. Unlike other select committees, this one has been operating remotely via zoom and broadcasted via livestream as well as on parliamentary TV. It also has a different composition to most other committees, with this one with a majority of opposition MP’s, as well as speakers from a wide range of areas. This week James has talked to the leader of the ACT party, David Seymour, about how he has found the response committee so far. James starts off by asking this exact question. If you are wanting to know more about the epidemic response committee, every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we have a segment covering that day's discussions, which are all uploaded to bCasts.