16 Feb 2021

Is alert level 3 enough to contain UK COVID strain?

From Afternoons, 1:20 pm on 16 February 2021

Epidemiologists are concerned the latest community cases of COVID in South Auckland are the highly transmissible UK strain. 

Senior political reporter at Newsroom, Marc Daalder, has been looking into the alert level three restrictions and whether they are enough to stop the spread of this strain in the community. He talks to Jesse about the concerns raised.

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