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Covid 19 coronavirus: It’s too soon to relax border restrictions for travellers from low-risk countries – Michael Plank – New Zealand Herald
OPINION: We’ve done the numbers – softening border rules now is a bad idea.
A family in managed isolation at Auckland’s Pullman Hotel on December 24. Photo / Michael CraigOPINION:
Relaxing border restrictions for travellers from low Covid-19 risk countries would increase the risk of community cases in New Zealand by about 25 per cent, says an article published today in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
This might not sound like a big increase in risk, but it means breaches like the one at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland last month will occur 25 per cent more frequently.
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