Queensland’s coronavirus death toll continues to climb as the state’s southeast braces for the peak of the Omicron wave next week.
There have now been 138 virus fatalities in the Sunshine state – a figure that stood at seven deaths three weeks ago – with Wednesday’s victims all aged older than 50, none of whom had been boosted.
The number of Covid patients in public Queensland hospitals has dropped from 928 to 889 with 47 of those people in intensive care, down slightly from 51. “We expect the peak in other regions of Queensland most notably in the rest of Southeast Queensland, to be sometime in the next seven days we expect that the numbers to peak in metropolitan Brisbane, probably Sunshine Coast, west towards Ipswich,” he said.
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