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A new Omicron wave is upon New Zealand, with older people now most at risk – here’s what to expect

  • Written by Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury
A new Omicron wave is upon New Zealand, with older people now most at risk – here’s what to expectShutterstock/Volurol

New Zealand has been in a COVID lull for the past two months, but with the BA.5 variant on the rise and more than 10,000 new daily cases reported this week, it appears we are now at the start of a second Omicron wave.

How large it will be is difficult to predict, but a number of factors coincide to make this the most serious...

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