NewsBite

Opinion

Andrew Mohl

Stay the course on suppression

Any strategy - suppression or elimination - depends entirely on execution. Get that wrong, and nothing will work.

Australia should stay the course on its suppression strategy in dealing with the coronavirus.

The recent wave of cases in Victoria has seen renewed interest in pursuing the far more challenging elimination strategy. On this line of thinking, the problems in Victoria are somehow due to a failure of strategy.

Loading...
Andrew Mohl was a senior economist at the RBA and group chief economist at ANZ Bank, before becoming CEO of AMP and an independent non-executive director of Commonwealth Bank.

Read More

Latest In Health & education

Fetching latest articles

Most Viewed In Policy

    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/stay-the-course-on-suppression-20200717-p55cz5