New Zealand government takes a calculated risk to relax Auckland's lockdown while new cases continue to appear

  • Written by: Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury
New Zealand government takes a calculated risk to relax Auckland's lockdown while new cases continue to appearFiona Goodall/Getty Images

The decision to move Auckland to alert level 3 from midnight on Tuesday is a calculated risk by the government. New daily cases in Auckland have stayed stubbornly high over the past week, a period when many of us had hoped to see them fall to single digits.

On a positive note, most of these new cases have been identified...

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