BREAKING: NSW has recorded 2566 new Covid-19 cases, Australia’s highest daily figure on record.
The state posted its highest daily figure across Australia since the beginning of the pandemic on Saturday, with 2482 new cases confirmed.
Hospitalisations and intensive care presentations remain relatively low, with 227 people in hospital with the virus, including 28 patients in ICU.NSW Health said the Omicron variant was “likely” to be accounting for the majority of the new cases and would be scaling back the attempts to identify the new strain in confirmed cases.
“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,” it said in a statement. “For instance, where it will inform treatment choices as some therapies work with Delta but not for Omicron, and in situations where it will inform public health action.”
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