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Covid-19 lockdown to change in NZ - Dr Ayesha Verrall responds

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English - April 20, 2020 06:09 - 8 minutes - 7.51 MB
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New Zealand needs to be able to contact trace up to 1,000 cases of Covid-19 - in case of a large outbreak in the next two years.
That is among the recommendations in a new report into contact tracing by Dr Ayesha Verrall, who found as we went into lockdown Public Health Units were being overwhelmed by less than 100 cases a day.
Dr Ayesha Verral joins Lisa Owen to discuss the latest details