The nursing union has called for people to be patient with testing staff and accept that wait times will be longer with demand expected to increase in the lead up to Christmas. COvid19 vaccine omicron SimoneFoxKoob
, including five new cases of the Omicron variant. There are now 392 people in hospital with the virus, with 41 on a ventilator., experts have called for the state government to reintroduce indoor mask-wearing and restrict large indoor events.
“I think, given what we know now, we have hospitalisations fairly steady - there’s been a little increase - and given that we still do have vaccine mandates, we have indoor masks, I wouldn’t rush in and change anything right now. Certainly, don’t ease the restrictions, but there’s no sign they’ll do that in Victoria,” he said.
“I think we should be aiming for 100,000 a day,” he said. “I think we should be aiming to test more people and make it more convenient for them with a lot more pop-up testing sites.”“I wouldn’t go personally, but I’m ultra-cautious ... but it’s understandable they are going ahead. I think the Adelaide Test is going pretty well, but they don’t have as many cases as us,” he said.
Deakin University epidemiology chair Catherine Bennett said with more and more people needing to confirm rapid antigen test results and others needing to fulfil pre-travel interstate border requirements, the testing sites weren’t meeting current demand.
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