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Wednesday 13 January 2021 3:32pm
The Government should be careful about banning people entering New Zealand from specific countries based on the presence of variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, given most countries are not testing for variants, University of Otago experts say.
Professor Philip Hill.
In an opinion article published today by Newsroom, McAuley Professor of International Health, Philip Hill, and Associate Professor of Epidemiology Brian Cox, highlight the fact that the vast majority of countries, including the USA, do little or no sequencing of the virus.
“We should be careful about banning people entering NZ from specific countries based on the presence of the UK or other known variants, given there is so little sequencing being done in other parts of the world.