NSW has recorded 20,794 new COVID-19 infections and four deaths while Victoria has recorded 8,577 new cases and three deaths:
Healthcare workers administer COVID-19 PCR tests at the St Vincent’s Drive-through Clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney on 1 January 2022.The number of people in hospital in Australia because of COVID-19 continues to rise, driven by NSW, which passed 1,000 hospitalisations on Sunday, and has now reached 1,204 in the state.
However, the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care is lower - at 148 nationally on Sunday. Fifty-one people were on ventilators. "So it is important to just monitor those symptoms; and then go about your business, observing all the commonsense controls and protections."after a COVID-19 positive case attended the press conference he held on Wednesday where he announced a snap national cabinet meeting for the following day.
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