23 Dec 2021

Covid-19: Modeller on case numbers into summer holidays

From Morning Report, 7:13 am on 23 December 2021

The country's Covid-19 contact tracing system is being upgraded to deal with the highly infectious Omicron variant.

It struggled in the Delta outbreak and will be critical for containing the much more virulent strain.

Te Punaha Matatini complex systems researcher Dr Dion O'Neale spoke to Susie Ferguson.