But first an update of the chart showing numbers of new announced coronavirus cases for New Zealand and Australia (the latter divided by five to produce a comparable per capita number).

A few days on from the last time I ran the chart and New Zealand is still finding about twice as many new cases per capita as Australia. At the margin, we seem to do be doing a few more tests per capita each day than Australia is – in both countries the number of tests being done has fallen back from the peak. But despite our more restrictive regime, we don’t seem to be producing better (lower new cases) results than Australia. Who knows why, although those left-wing academics from Otago, professors Baker and Wilson, while lavishing praise on the Prime Minister in the Guardian
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