The Washington Post wrote that New Zealand is 'squashing' its coronavirus curve. An expert agrees, but says the elimination policy could still fail.

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• New Zealand's approach to the coronavirus, by closing its borders to foreigners and focusing on eliminating rather than containing the coronavirus, has been praised by The Washington Post.
• Washington Post Beijing bureau chief Anna Fifield, who's from New Zealand, wrote that it only took 10 days for signs to show the country's elimination goal was working.
• Otago University professor Nick Wilson told Business Insider that The Washington Post was on point, but there was a still chance that elimination would fail and New Zealand would need to shift to an alternative strategy. 
• As of April 8, New Zealand, a nation of about 5 million people, had 1,160 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with one death.
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New Zealand's approach to the coronavirus — closing its borders to foreigners and focusing on eliminating rather than containing the coronavirus — has been praised by The Washington Post, although one professor warns elimination could still fail.

On April 7, the Washington Post published a story titled: "New Zealand isn't just flattening the curve. It's squashing it."

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