22 Apr 2021

Statistics expert on proposed 'traffic light' system at border

From Morning Report, 6:50 am on 22 April 2021

With the two-week halt on flights from India about to expire, the government is considering whether to create a traffic-light system to pause flights from countries particularly affected by Covid-19.

But a modeller working on the question of how to predict where cases might come from says that's easier said than done.

Professor Michael Plank is a professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury and Principal Investigator at Te Punaha Matatini.

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