With most mandatory public health measures gone, is New Zealand well prepared for the next COVID wave?

  • Written by: Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury
With most mandatory public health measures gone, is New Zealand well prepared for the next COVID wave?Hospitality staff are no longer required to wear masks. Fiona Goodall/Getty Images

New Zealand’s decision this week to end most mandatory public health measures aimed at preventing COVID transmission received a mixed response. Our modelling suggests it was time to wind back restrictions, but some measures were perhaps scrapped prematurely.

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