Video / NZ HeraldBy RNZNew Zealand has recorded its first case of the new Omicron subvariant BQ.1.1, and epidemiologist Michael Baker said a return to some kind of alert level system could help avoid the worst in future Covid-19 waves. Baker said that "unfortunately, it looks like more of the same", and that some kind of return to an alert level system could be helpful. "We've already been through two big Omicron waves this year," in March with BA.1 and BA.2 and July with BA.5, he said. Although the traffic light system was scrapped in September, Baker said he believed there was still a need for some kind of alert level. "We have alert level systems for fires, for earthquakes, for all these other threats.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 14, 2022 06:18 UTC