Health / Covid 19

Baker: debate should be had on mask use, isolation periods

05:52 am on 2 September 2022

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Australia has reduced its covid isolation period from seven to five days for asymptomatic people. And from next Friday, masks will also be scrapped on the country's domestic flights. It comes as Covid community cases HERE continue to fall. Just over 2000 cases were reported yesterday and just 286 people are in hospital with the virus. So is the pandemic over? Joining Nathan Rarere is University of Otago epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker.