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- New Zealand's approach to the coronavirus, by closing its borders to foreigners and focusing on eliminating rather than containing the coronavirus, has been praised by The Washington Post.
- Washington Post Beijing bureau chief Anna Fifield, who's from New Zealand, wrote that it only took 10 days for signs to show the country's elimination goal was working.
- Otago University professor Nick Wilson told Business Insider that The Washington Post was on point, but there was a still chance that elimination would fail and New Zealand would need to shift to an alternative strategy.
- As of April 8, New Zealand, a nation of about 5 million people, had 1,160 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with one death.
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New Zealand's approach to the coronavirus — closing its borders to foreigners and focusing on eliminating rather than containing the coronavirus — has been praised by The Washington Post, although one professor warns elimination could still fail.
On April 7, the Washington Post published a story titled: "New Zealand isn't just flattening the curve. It's squashing it."
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