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You have about 5 million people on the island and the uk has about 60 ish million so it’s not comparable.
Low population density overall but 89% living in cities, compared to the UK's 84%. Its quite similar.
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But much less international travel, you would think? NZ's great advantage was that policymakers could treat the country as a closed system, whereas in the UK the effects of closing the borders are massively greater given family and business ties to Europe.
The scale of the UK's contact tracing problem in the early weeks became unsolvably massive almost immediately. Silly example but remember the issue about Excel running out of rows (1.5 million or something)?
NickCJ
The proper research thing is now showing that a lot of that was nonsense and that’s not just down there that’s here too. You have about 5 million people on the island and the uk has about 60 ish million so it’s not comparable.
Edit : 67 million folk in the UK in 2021.