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6 months after New Zealand’s first COVID-19 case, it’s time for a more strategic approach – The Conversation AU
New Zealand’s most pressing challenge is to bring the current COVID-19 outbreak under control, but it also time to make more strategic improvements to prevent future border control failures.
This week marks six months since New Zealands first COVID-19 case was identified on February 26.
So far New Zealand has been largely in reactive mode, initially during the first elimination stage which finished in early June and now in response to the ongoing Auckland outbreak.
Given the vigorous response to controlling this current cluster, we have a good chance of eliminating community transmission again.
But to maximise our protection against future border control failures and outbreaks…
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