Tagged: community transmission

100 days without COVID-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world - COVID-19

Guest Author • Aug 07, 2020 •

• community transmission,
• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• elimination

Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago On Sunday, New Zealand will mark 100 days without community transmission of COVID-19. From the first known case imported into New Zealand on February 26 to the last case of community transmission detected on May 1, elimination took 65 days. New Zealand relied on … Read More

Why I’m confident there is no community transmission in NZ - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Jun 25, 2020 •

• border,
• community transmission,
• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• testing

Both the leader of the opposition Todd Muller and University of Auckland Professor Des Gorman have gone on the record as saying they suspect Covid-19 is spreading in the community in New Zealand once again. Let me explain why I don’t agree with them. As best I can tell there are two reasons Muller and Gorman have jumped to the … Read More

What we would like to see on the Ministry of Health’s website to better inform progress on COVID-19 elimination - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • May 03, 2020 •

• case data,
• community transmission,
• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• elimination goal,
• probable cases

Gordon Purdie, Nick Wilson, Michael G Baker In this blog we analyse data from the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 website and display a key graph that we think should be routinely on that website. We also detail a potentially more useful way to categorise case data so that the public and research community can better track progress on the … Read More