The transtasman quarantine free travel bubble has been paused for three days as of 10.30pm last night.

This is the first time the bubble to all Australian states has been paused.

Quarantine Free Travel from all Australian states and territories will be paused from Saturday 10.30pm (NZT) until 11.59pm (NZT) on Tuesday June 29.

Minister for Covid-19 Response Chris Hipkins announced the bubble pause in a media statement at 9pm last night.

"There are now multiple cases and outbreaks in Australia in differing stages of containment and the health risk for New Zealand in response to these cases is increasing," the statement said.

It follows Wellington being entered into Alert Level Two, after a health worker from New South Wales - where cases are skyrocketing - visited the capital last weekend while positive with the Delta variant.

1News reporter Katie Bradford and Gold AM host Andrew Dickens joined Francesca Rudkin to discuss the latest Covid developments - as well as the rest of the weekend's news.

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