Covid-19: How Australia's Omicron battle compares with NZ

Experts have compared Australia's Omicron experience with our own to conclude New Zealand needs to be strengthening its public health measures, rather than relaxing them.

Kiwis learn tomorrow whether the country will shift to the orange traffic light setting: a move that would remove capacity limits but still require masks to be worn at many indoor venues.

Ahead of that decision, Otago University public health experts Dr Jennifer Summers and professors Michael Baker and Nick Wilson have published a commentary calling for urgent and widespread improvements to our pandemic response – namely with higher vaccination coverage and strong mask measures.

As for what New Zealand might expect on the other side of our Omicron peak, the researchers turned across the Tasman.

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