In this article, the authors use a stochastic model of COVID-19 transmission and testing to investigate the effect that vaccination of border workers has on the risk of an outbreak in an unvaccinated community.

Currently, New Zealand has reported no new COVID-19 cases for over two weeks, therefore according to this report, there is a 95% probability that COVID-19 has been eliminated within New Zealand. The report discusses these findings in detail.

There is limited evidence as to how COVID-19 infection fatality rates (IFR) may vary by ethnicity. The authors combine demographic and health data for ethnic groupings in Aotearoa New Zealand with international data on IFR for different age groups to estimate inequities in IFR by ethnicity.