The surge in cases has been largely attributed to the Omicron variant, which has quickly outpaced PCR testing capacity across the country. Thursday's cases included a backlog of positive RATs from January 1. The avalanche of cases comes as the NSW government announced that self-reporting would ...
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 month of March, the first ...
Victoria has more than 30 active cases and has made masks mandatory across the state, restricted the number of people who can meet socially and shut its border with NSW. Health authorities have identified 220 "close contacts" and more than 50 "exposure sites" linked to posi...
Fortuitously, given the relatively low number of COVID-19 cases in Australia (at the time of writing 28,842 cases and 909 deaths), schools in NSW re-opened in plenty of time for follow-up data collection which commenced in late October and concluded in early December. Just when the world...
Cases decreased over the border in NSW. NSW recorded 38,610 new infections in the past week (down by around 2000 from last week) and 78 people died with the virus. There are now 1618 COVID-19 patients in the state’s hospitals and 34 people in ICU. ...
The model is fitted to the corresponding cumulative number of cases in metropolitan and rural health districts of NSW reported by the Health Department and parameterised using the least-squares method. The basic reproduction number (R0), which measures the possible spread of COVID-19 in a ...
Interstate, NSW has reported 21 deaths overnight and 17,856 new cases of COVID-19. There are now 1582 people in hospital with the virus and 71 people in ICUs around the state. Victoria has reported 14 deaths overnight and an additional 10,462 cases of COVID-19. ...
More deaths in Victoria, as NSW COVID cluster triggers reactions in Queensland and South Australia by Michelle Grattan,The Conversation Uncertainty surrounding a cluster of COVID-19 cases linked to a Sydney hotel has prompted reactions from the Queensland and South Australian governments, as the ...
1 Phylodynamics of SARS-CoV-2 clusters in NSW. Timestamped tree with selected genomic clusters (five or more cases); first Australian case was used as reference point. The genomic clusters were sampled for a limited period (maximum 19 days) and displayed weak temporal signal (R2 = ...
On Wednesday, the state reported 24,151 new COVID-19 cases and 15 deaths. Daily cases have mounted at an alarming rate, with 19,183 new cases reported on Tuesday and 15,572 on Monday. There are 1,444 COVID-19 patients in NSW hospitals, 51 of whom require intensive care. ...