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Bryan Betty: Where did the Covid-19 outbreak come from?

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Publish Date
Sat, 15 Aug 2020, 12:01PM
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Bryan Betty: Where did the Covid-19 outbreak come from?

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sat, 15 Aug 2020, 12:01PM

We’re back in lockdown while the Ministry of Health rushes to contact trace everyone who came into contact with the latest COVID cluster.

But we still don’t know how the family got it in the first place.

Bryan Betty is a GP and medical director for the College of GPs and he’s also on the Covid-19 advisory committee.

He joined Jack Tame to share some insight on the following questions -

Exactly how infectious is COVID, person to person?

How long does COVID stick around in the air?

This week we’ve seen stories of it being transported from place to place on frozen goods .. how common could this be? Is this where the Kiwi cases could have come from? 

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