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  • Five Potential Enhancements of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa NZ

    … health work force is conducting extensive contact tracing, community testing, genomics work and wastewater testing. Wage … outbreak remain (ie, with finding undetected cases in the community) and so in this blog we suggest potential actions … through Alert Levels faster (albeit based on the extent of community testing and wastewater testing). In essence what is …
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  • Making the most of masks

    … out of lockdown, the need to prevent new outbreaks in the community remains imperative. One of the most effective ways … of 35 studies supported the use of face masks in the community for COVID-19 prevention, and encouraged further … “all available epidemiologic evidence suggests that community-wide mask-wearing results in reduced rates of …
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  • The COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/NZ: A brief photo-essay with 10 photos

    … 1 The goal of eliminating COVID-19 transmission in the community has driven subsequent interventions to keep it out … transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic virus in the community.   Figure 3: A new type of “rush hour” , with this … areas) was successfully used to achieve the elimination of community transmission. Indeed, the stringency of the control …
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  • How to Systematically Reduce the Border Failure Risk for COVID-19 in Aotearoa/NZ

    … nation internationally when it comes to eliminating community transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. 1-3 The … destinations that are experiencing active COVID-19 community transmission. Additionally, shipping and operation … occupations Given the substantial risk of a community outbreak precipitated by an asymptomatic index …
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  • Urgently upgrading NZ’s Covid-19 response

    … mask requirements that can be matched to the risk in the community: The ‘ travel and health settings ’ where masks are … journeys. This level is appropriate for times when community transmission risk is low but non-zero, for example … This level is required when there is a high risk of community transmission and particularly when a highly …
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  • Wellbeing in public housing vs. private rentals: Quality and security make the difference

    … Zealand (NZ) is provided by several agencies, including Community Housing Providers, local government and central … living in a Housing Association (HA) tenancy (akin to a Community Housing Provider in NZ) was estimated to increase … a strong sense of place, exhibiting pride in their local community. 3 Factors that determine this positive sense of …
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  • “Nudging” to improve QR scanning and mask wearing to protect us all during a pandemic

    … cases arising from border system failures. Within the community, high QR code scanning rates enable rapid … states and territories, and the recent threat of community transmission in Wellington, have focussed attention …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … and public media, this strategy seeks to reduce the community transmission of the pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2, to … Auckland outbreak: a perimeter was rapidly established and community transmission restricted. Despite the success, to … freedom – a failure, in truth, to understand that we are a community, a society, not a collection of isolated …
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  • What we would like to see on the Ministry of Health’s website to better inform progress on COVID-19 elimination

    … to categorise case data so that the public and research community can better track progress on the path to COVID-19 … containment efforts and identify improvements. The term “community transmission” is ambiguous and probably not …         People who were infected from a known case in the community (ie, epidemiologically linked and not in the above …
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  • To ensure success of the trans-Tasman travel “green zone”, we need to reduce system failures at the NZ border

    … facility (see Table 2) before then moving into the community [19] [20]. These infected returnees appear to have … [23]. The subsequent route of transmission to the first community case remains unclear (albeit the person worked in … A returnee was identified as being infectious in the community after leaving a MIQ facility (Pullman, Auckland). …
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