South Australia now has more cases per capita than Victoria, while Queensland has warned citizens to ‘get ready for Covid’
, where 589 new cases were recorded on Friday, the health minister, Yvette D’Ath, warned residents to “get ready for Covid”.
But even McGowan hinted the possibility of changes to that approach on Friday, saying the 5 February border change may be “redundant” if the state saw significant spread of the virus. The NSW chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, said evidence from both here and overseas indicated “infection with Omicron is likely to be milder than infection with Delta, with the risk of hospitalisation being about 60% to 80% less than for Delta”.
“It’s so apparent. Tomorrow I will have about 20 patients who are at high risk. Of those 19 will have no symptoms. It’s so different to Delta. During Delta, I’d call maybe 60 people a day and out of those all 60 would have symptoms,” he said. According to Basyouny that was both a result of the variant’s milder outcomes, but also the ballooning case numbers.
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