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Professor Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases expert at the Australian National University, said neither a hard lockdown approach nor a more laissez faire attitude was likely to be the ideal approach to living with COVID-19.

“In my view, neither the New Zealand nor the Swedish approach is the way to go,” he told news.com.au last month.

“The trouble with Sweden is it’s had a lot of deaths; the trouble with New Zealand is elimination is difficult to achieve.

“What’s happening in NSW with contact tracing and stopping the spread is more like what we will have to do for the next few years.”

Even Sweden’s Dr Tegnell has cautioned against declaring Sweden a success story, just yet. It could take until next year to know if the approach was right, he said.