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Re:R number for UK below 1 for first time since August by bluescrn on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:50AM (#25236594)
London in particular is a massive international travel hub. It’s a part of the EU (for a few more weeks...), not an isolated island.

NZ has nothing that comes close. Australia is about a 4hr flight away.

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Re:R number for UK below 1 for first time since August by riffraff on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:06AM (#25236662)
but being a travel hub does not mean too much: you can still isolate people who enter the border.

People in transit infect each other, and workers are exposed to more chances to get infected, but it's a more manageable situation than land borders.

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