Repeated but brief confinements are better than long periods of isolation.
This is the bias of Australia and New Zealand, which hope to curb the spread of new variants of the virus without compromising the economic recovery.
The two Pacific nations are stepping up both very localized and short measures.
Lockdowns of just three or five days were put in place this week in Melbourne, Australia's Victoria state and the Auckland region in northern New Zealand.
Daniel Andrews, Prime Minister of Victoria, said the use of containment
"brief and effective as a short circuit"
blocked a possible third local wave.
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Judging by the latest experiences, these mini-containments are
"unlikely to disrupt the economic recovery",
abounds the research firm Capital Economics.
In Sydney, for example, where the population was partially confined from the end of December
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