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by modzu 2240 days ago
no because that assumes they are calculating the risk. they aren't because disease is already inside the borders. closing them is purely political
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The disease is close to eradicated inside the borders of NZ. At this point there are only a couple of hundred active cases and we’ve now had a couple of days with 0 new cases. Australia seems to be on track for the same thing.