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Re:R number for UK below 1 for first time since August by graeme on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:23AM (#25236740)
I don’t mean in march necessarily. But the UK never implemented testing at the border or isolation for travellers in any rigorous way.

They could have done this sometime over the summer. Going zero covid has huge economic benefits. And with testing you could let business travellers in with a modified isolation.

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Re:R number for UK below 1 for first time since August by postingawayonhn on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:49AM (#25237216)
It was only worth doing in March. Because there were so few cases NZ got down to zero in about 5 weeks. Once the cases numbers build up the time and economic cost to get to zero is unfeasible.
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