Doctors in Australia are warning that a rapid easing of COVID-19 curbs in Sydney could put pressure on health systems and place more lives at risk from the virus. It comes as the country's most populated city, Sydney, gets ready to relax key restrictions after more than 100...
Adequate isolation spaces are needed to help fight COVID-19 infections among Greater Victoria’s underserved population. Although it could not disclose an exact number of cases, Island Health confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 among those being sheltered within Greater Victoria’s suppo...
SYDNEY, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Daily COVID-19 cases in the Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) surged on Wednesday as the highly transmissible Omicron BA.2 sub-variant continues to spread. NSW reported 25,235 new cases on Wednesday, its second highest daily increase in ...
The neighboring state Victoria also recorded its lowest daily cases for the year with 7,104 new infections and two deaths. There are currently 465 people in the hospital with the virus, down from the peak of more than 1,000 patients at the hospital at the end of January. As the country'...
Andrews said Victoria had recorded 363 new Covid-19 cases Saturday, bringing the state’s total to 5,696 cases. “We are going to be wearing masks in Victoria, and potentially in other parts of the country for a very long time. There is no vaccine to this widely infectious virus. And...
For the first time, reported cases nationally are now most commonly children under the age of 12 who do not qualify to be vaccinated against COVID-19. However, Tam said outbreaks in school and daycares have been smaller this wave, suggesting they are being closely monitored. ...
COVID‐19EpidemicsPrevention and controlAustralia, like many other countries, had an initial rise in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) cases in March and April 2020; however, this was followed by a relatively sharp decline in May 2020 after federal and state governments introduced strict ...
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1,635 infections were linked with childcare and schools in some way, out of a total of 19,901 infections in Victoria. Cases associated with schools accounted for eight percent of all infections in Victoria Testing, tracing and isolation within 48 hours of a notification is the most important ...
Victoria cases surge and states tighten restrictions as Australia’s outbreak shifts focus Victoria reported a record of 1,438 new local cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, almost 500 more than its previous high, as the state surged ahead of New South Wales as the focus of Australia’s virus ou...