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. 2022 Oct 29;13:6484. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34186-9

Fig. 6. Estimated rate of Omicron arrival into the community.

Fig. 6

Left: Estimated Omicron arrivals (into the community) and recorded passenger arrivals (into the country). The black curve is equal to a smoothed sum of the five black curves in Fig. 5. The Omicron arrival rate appears to drop off at the start of June, but this is simply due to a lag between lineages arriving at the border and then being detected in the community by genomic surveillance. Right: Omicron arrivals can be explained by passenger arrivals into New Zealand. This linear model was built from the two curves in the left panel, restricted from after the border opened (3 Mar) until available genomic data starts to lag (30 May).