We believe New Zealand can eliminate COVID-19 again. But it could do more to speed up that process with mandatory masks and tighter controls on high-risk venues, including bars, gyms and churches.
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Of the students with jobs, 60% lost them and and two-thirds of the rest had hours cut. As they struggled, and often failed, to get rents and tuition fees reduced, precarious lives became even harder.
If the vaccine does not protect individuals from infection, those who have been vaccinated could falsely believe they are protected.
New Zealand has confirmed a new community outbreak of COVID-19 and the country returns to pandemic restrictions, with Auckland under alert level 3 conditions.
Border restrictions and quarantine have kept COVID-19 out of New Zealand, but new modelling shows contact tracing and quick isolation would control an outbreak, without the need for another lockdown.
New Zealand is one of a small number of countries that have managed to eliminate community transmission of COVID-19. It’s now reached a 100-day milestone with no new cases in the community.
With a dramatic drop in bookings, volunteer tourism projects in developing countries have been hit hard, affecting local economies which depend heavily on volunteer spending and help.
The rate of domestic violence cases has increased in Indonesia due to the pandemic.
Putting all of Victoria under stage 4 restrictions would give the state its best chance of stopping community transmission, rather than setting it up to play an endless game of COVID-19 whack-a-mole.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has declared a state of disaster and an 8pm-5am curfew for Melbourne for the next six weeks. Meanwhile, the rest of the state moves to stage 3 restrictions.
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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has voiced frustration at workers who don’t stay home despite having COVID-19 symptoms. But the problem is linked to growing workforce casualisation and use of labour hire.
Despite a lighter lockdown, Sweden hasn’t avoided the damaging economic disruption experienced elsewhere.
Victoria recorded 484 new cases on a day when COVID-19 should have been firmly on the decline if the latest lockdown was working. It’s time to contemplate even stricter measures for longer-term gain.
Too many people are going out with COVID-19 symptoms or while awaiting a test result, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has said, after the state hit a bleak new record of 484 new cases.
The race is on to develop a vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus. Australian researchers are leading several major clinical trials that might help bring an end to the deadly disease.
If immunity is short-lived, we will be in an ongoing cycle of endless reinfection.
With COVID-19 spreading in Sydney’s southwest, can New South Wales avoid a return to lockdown and a similar scenario to Victoria’s second wave? The answer depends on whether there is community spread.
Our new modelling shows the risk of an infectious person slipping through New Zealand’s border undetected is very low — likely to happen only once over the next 18 months.
Victoria has recorded its largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases. It might be time to return to a statewide lockdown.
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Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Physics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Canterbury
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Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Clinical Psychologist, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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