How do we best relax control measures as vaccine coverage for SARS-CoV-2 rises?

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered movement and behaviour patterns of populations across the world. To reduce disease spread, countries have enacted varying levels of control measures, such as border restrictions, mask mandates, and social distancing policies.1 Given the rising rates of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, a key challenge for each country is to determine the optimal speed to relax control measures at, as domestic vaccine coverage increases. In The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, Trung Nguyen and colleagues2 use mathematical modelling to analyse how different vaccination strategies interact with control measures to affect COVID-19 transmission in New Zealand (NZ).

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