Strict lockdown measures and changing behaviour is causing the number of new Covid-19 cases to stabilise. Economist and Covid-19 modeller Rodney Jones, who has been keeping an eye on the international trends, said the speed of the decline in US and UK cases was remarkable. For the first time since 12 months ago, there's kind of an end in sight." Jones said a picture of where the pandemic was headed would become more clear over June and July. I think we can have more confidence that as we look to '22 that we are going to leave this pandemic behind.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 17, 2021 21:44 UTC