Experts are warning that COVID still 'has tricks up its sleeve', with reinfections rising and new strains emerging.
In Victoria, more than 20,000 reinfections have been recorded. It is detecting reinfections through data-matching processes.
The ACT has recorded more than 670 reinfections -- and 70 per cent of those had both infections since the arrival of Omicron. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics , there are now 47 Australians who have lost their lives to long-COVID.
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