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Modelling tells us the coronavirus app will need a big take-up, economics tells us how to get it

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Modelling tells us the coronavirus app will need a big take-up, economics tells us how to get it丁亦然/UpSplash

With Australia’s test-confirmed daily COVID-19 infection rates continuing to fall to relatively low levels, there is considerable discussion about when and how the successful containment measures might be relaxed.

There are four key prerequisites for relaxation:

  1. the daily infection rate needs to be very low...

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