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It’s still too soon for NZ to relax COVID-19 border restrictions for travellers from low-risk countries – Micky News
Relaxing border restrictions for travelers from low COVID-19 risk countries would increase the risk of community cases in New Zealand by around 25%, says an article…
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% more frequently.
This increases the chance of a community outbreak and the possibility that an alert level change would be needed to contain it.
With new more transmissible variants and more COVID-19 cases worldwide than ever before, this adds up to a significant risk.
Risk from isolation facilities
The work in the article builds on a mathematical model…
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