Business Reports

Fri Apr 24

Modelling tells us the coronavirus app will need a big take-up, economics tells us how to get it

Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW

With Australia’s test-confirmed daily COVID-19 infection rates continuing to fall to relatively low levels, there is considerable discussion about when and how the successful containment measures might be relaxed.

There are four key prerequisites for relaxation:

the daily infection rate needs to be very low...

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