by Admin | 22 Mar 2021 | Branching process modelling
Throughout 2020 and the first part of 2021, Australia and New Zealand have followed a Covid-19 elimination strategy. Both countries require overseas arrivals to quarantine in government-managed facilities at the border. In both countries, community outbreaks of...
by Admin | 22 Feb 2021 | Branching process modelling
Between February and May 2020, Aotearoa New Zealand recorded 1504 cases of Covid-19 before eliminating community transmission of the virus in June 2020. During this period, a series of control measures were used including population-wide interventions implemented via...
by Admin | 8 Dec 2020 | Branching process modelling
Executive summary We model the effects on the risk of Covid-19 border reincursions of a wide variety of different border policies, including changes in managed isolation requirements for travellers as well as different testing regimes for frontline border workers. A...
by Admin | 9 Nov 2020 | Branching process modelling
Executive summary Evaluating the effectiveness of New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, relative to counterfactual (alternative ‘what-if’) scenarios, is important for guiding future response strategies. We assess the importance of early implementation of interventions for...
by Admin | 31 Oct 2020 | Equity and at-risk communities
Early career researchers provide a valuable contribution to the productivity and connectivity of the research ecosystem in Aotearoa New Zealand, but are particularly vulnerable to the societal fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. This report – a letter prepared on...
