The Government did “absolutely” the right thing by extending the Alert Level 3 boundaries further into the Waikato , an epidemiologist says.
That was because a person who contracts the Delta variant of Covid-19 could be likened to a “human flamethrower” that shouldn’t be thrown into a “forest”, Auckland University professor Rod Jackson said.
“We’ve got a few fires in the forest at the moment. The only way to deal with that is to put a big fire break in the way.
“Putting a border south of Hamilton is just putting a massive big fire break down there. Sadly, that fire break south of Auckland didn’t work.
“So, we’re going to have to try harder.”
Whether it be an elimination or suppression strategy, he said these were all “stopgap” measures until a large proportion of the population got vaccinated.
Jackson encouraged people to get their jabs.
“Taking my analogy a bit further, there are all these fires out in the forest. Vaccination is like a personal sprinkler system.”
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