Scientists say the vaccine isn't a magic bullet and public health measures like wearing a mask on public transport should still be encouraged. And Covid still has the potential to rapidly spread until the majority of the population are vaccinated. "If someone has measles they isolate at home and it will be the same with Covid," Baker said. He said this could start to happen with more and more countries as our vaccine programme continued to roll out. Photo / FilePetousis-Harris said the problem with eradicating or even eliminating Covid was that the virus was not only a human pathogen.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 19, 2021 03:00 UTC