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Medical director of Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Dr Bryan Betty.

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[…] in the last four to five weeks, the situation has changed dramatically with Omicron, which is not Delta – it’s much more like a common cold, flu-like illness. And I think we need to move into a space very rapidly of thinking we’re going to live with this and get back to some sort of normality.”

[…] “We need to be de-escalating this

[…] I would expect very rapidly that the isolation guidelines that we have got in place at the moment would start to be cut back quite rapidly.”

[…] “I’m really worried about measles or whooping cough showing itself up again. And these are actually dangerous conditions that I believe could have the potential to start to be with us again because Covid is dominating our discourse at this point.”

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