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Zero COVID worked for some countries – but high vaccine coverage is now key

By Ruairi Brugha, Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

Since the start of the pandemic, several countries have adopted a zero-COVID strategy, aiming to eradicate COVID within their borders. Faced with the highly transmissible delta variant, many are now abandoning it.

New Zealand is the latest country to abandon the zero-COVID approach, following hard on the heels of Vietnam and Australia.…

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