Jurisdictions across Australia have been hit with a surge in demand for COVID-19 testing, while NSW has set a national record of 3,763 daily cases:
Mr Perrottet will raise the issue of the booster shot interval when national cabinet meets on Wednesday.
"I know it's been a challenge, I know there are queues, that is unfortunately the way when there's 140,000 tests occurring every single day," he said on Tuesday. "The modelling that's been reported is a very unlikely, extreme case scenario that assumes that nobody does anything; nobody gets boosters, there are no changes that take place, no one exercises common sense," Mr Morrison told Sunrise.
The state reported 1,503 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday from 92,262 test results - the most processed in a 24-hour window since the pandemic began in early 2020. "That is part of the pressure that we have to deal with," he told reporters at Sandown Racecourse vaccination centre on Wednesday. Cases of the Omicron variant have jumped to 61, up from 37 on Tuesday, and the state is bracing for more.
Wednesday's 58 cases amounts to the highest one-day COVID-19 total in Canberra. The previous high was 52 in early October.Government clinics processed 6,966 results from Tuesday, making it the national capital's fourth highest testing day.
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