Statistics expert on proposed 'traffic light' system at border - a podcast by RNZ

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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