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Our research shows the government must help tourism operators address chronic staff shortages, skyrocketing insurance and developing better plans for future shocks.
With a long winter approaching and the virus gripping Europe, the ongoing battle between health and the economy, lockdowns and personal freedoms, will prove hugely challenging.
We are not all in this together.
With sufficient testing and co-ordination, reopening schools and businesses in areas without active outbreaks can be as effective as a wide lockdown in minimizing COVID-19 cases, according to a new model.
While the focus has been on containing ‘hot spots’ of COVID-19 outbreaks, understanding why some areas have few or no cases could point the way to a staged reopening that starts with these areas.
Local lockdowns are necessary but they place a significant burden on affected communities. Here’s how to make sure they work, and quickly.
Local lockdowns in Italy and Germany have led to civil unrest. Could the same happen in the UK?
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Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Director, School for the Visitor Economy, Victoria University
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Professor in International History, Flinders University
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Professor of Social Psychology, Keele University
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor & Director, Global Ecological Change & Sustainability Laboratory, University of Guelph
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Royal Holloway University of London
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Medical Epidemiologist, University of Oxford
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Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
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Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, University of Guelph
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Research Fellow, Victoria University
