New Zealand has managed to dodge the COVID-19 bullet, again. Here's why

  • Written by: Arindam Basu, Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Canterbury
New Zealand has managed to dodge the COVID-19 bullet, again. Here's whyLynn Grieveson/Getty Images

New Zealand has avoided community transmission, even though an Australian visitor tested positive for the delta variant which dominates Australia’s latest COVID-19 outbreaks.

New Zealand health authorities were quick to react, isolating and testing contacts and suspending travel. Of the traveller’s 2,609...

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