Video / NZ HeraldExperts are urging the Government to keep core Covid-19 measures in place, warning that calls made today could shape the health of Kiwis over decades to come. "The actual Covid-19 community case figures are still likely much higher than those being reported currently, with Covid-19 related deaths continuing to be reported each day." "It's got so clunky and has such poor coverage of interventions that it's not really helping us so much anymore," Otago University epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker said. "Masking in the green level, for the foreseeable future, should at least be in health and aged care facilities," Otago University epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker said. Across the Tasman, Melbourne-based Kiwi epidemiologist Professor Tony Blakely said there appeared to be a "strong political and societal desire to get back to normal".

Source: New Zealand Herald September 04, 2022 06:43 UTC