‘No second chances’: Can New Zealand beat Delta?

Jacinda Ardern has led a global Covid success story, but other countries have come unstuck when facing the Delta variant

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As epidemiologist Michael Baker scrolled through a growing list of New Zealand's Covid-exposed locations, my heart just sank," he says.

Bars, nightclubs, churches, schools, restaurants and hospitals - the bullet points were an infectious disease expert's nightmare. Virtually every high risk, indoor environment was on that list."