NSW has recorded more than 2,500 new COVID-19 cases as health officials warn the Omicron variant is 'likely' accounting for the majority of cases across the state.
"With the high number of COVID-19 cases now in NSW, NSW Health will only undertake genomic sequencing for the Omicron variant in the circumstances where it will make a clinical difference to the care of a patient," NSW Health said in a statement on Saturday.
There are 392 people in hospital with COVID-19, 81 active and 37 cleared in ICU and 41 on a ventilator. "We need to be careful in how we talk about case numbers," Mr Morrison told reporters in Tasmania on Saturday. "You know the case numbers are not translating into immediate pressure and that's not to say it won't, but we're ready for this.
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