Local knowledge

When news of the new community cases of Covid19 broke on Sunday, congregants at a Dunedin church may have had an early headsup that something was afoot.

Aupito William Sio, the Minister for Pacific Peoples, was in Dunedin last weekend to attend the inaugural Moana Nui Festival.

On Sunday morning he was at worship at the EKFS church in Macandrew Rd when his phone started ringing red hot with news an emergency Cabinet meeting was being called to discuss how to respond to the news.