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Press Release – Science Media Centre Research contracted by the aviation sector models the effect of selectively relaxing our border restrictions depending on each countrys Covid-19 risk level. It is a model of how we could manage international arrivals by their country of origin, … Research contracted by the aviation sector models the effect of selectively relaxing our border restrictions depending on each country’s Covid-19 risk level. It is a model of how we could manage international...

Abigail Dougherty/Stuff Dr Siouxsie Wiles has criticised Air New Zealand for allowing passengers to take off their masks while eating on-board. She had contacted the airline a number of times about its domestic mask policy but said she had not received a response. According to the Government’s Covid-19 advice for Alert Level 1, passengers “legally must wear a face covering when you’re travelling on a domestic flight anywhere in New Zealand”. Private flights are not included. Anyone r...

• Source:  1 NEWS Research which has been funded by Air New Zealand has modelled the effect of selectively relaxing our border restrictions depending on each country’s Covid-19 risk levels, but experts have acknowledged its weaknesses. The study is a model of how New Zealand could manage international arrivals by their country of origin and suggests we could offer quarantine-free...

It makes sense for New Zealand to have a border system based on countries’ Covid-19 risk in the future, but at the moment we need to do all we can to stop the disease at the border, says a mathematical modelling expert. A report published in the New Zealand Medical Journal on Friday, commissioned by Auckland International Airport, concluded that loosening border restrictions for some low-risk countries resulted in a small increase – one infection every 10 months - in the rate of undetected...

Friday, 5 February 2021, 9:52 am Research contracted by the aviation sector models the effect of selectively relaxing our border restrictions depending on each country’s Covid-19 risk level. It is a model of how we could manage international arrivals by their country of origin, and suggests we could offer quarantine-free travel or shorter stays in quarantine to arrivals from some less Covid-afflicted areas. The study is funded by Auckland Airport, Wellington Airport, Christchurch Airport an...

"A lot of countries just dont test enough. So if we look at the UK and the US, theyre probably way underestimating the number of cases they have.  Hendy says this is particularly the case in countries where there are large outbreaks and not everyone gets a test, leading to undercounting.  "So this group [the aviation sector] said, okay what if we look at COVID fatalities, but the difficulty is, the deaths run about three weeks behind infections, so if youre only watching deaths, we wouldnt cl...

Why have there been no further Northland community cases? An expert proposes two reasons.

Time in managed isolation needs to be bolstered by self-isolation and follow-up tests, epidemiologists say.

The media was again incredibly frustrating at the 4pm covid update yesterday, and in this mornings Herald. Having Audrey Young doing a grumpy old woman routine asking the same gotcha question a million times ("why are we not told these business now?", and the switcheroo "why were this businesses blindsided by releasing their information before informing them?") was bad enough but her personal annoyance has become the subject of her piece this morning in the paper, where for some vague reason th...

viz., "a supra-national entity that has laws, courts and the means to enforce the peace." RedLogix 1.1.1.1.1.1 In my view that while the ICC was undeniably a good idea, it never attained the commitment across the board to permit it to succeed. Ill go back to my original parallel; the reason why nation states are mostly lawful and peaceful places is that ordinary citizens forgo the right to coercion and revenge and place it solely in the hands of the nation state. In the ca...