NSW has recorded 3763 new infections as its hospitalised cases pass 300; Victoria’s hospitalisations remain steady; Prime Minister Scott Morrison says modelling predicting up to 200,000 COVID-19 cases a day is a “worst case scenario”; Follow updates here.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the figures of 200,000 cases a day from the Doherty Institute modelling represent “a very unlikely, extreme case scenario”.
“That’s very important. And, of course, we’ve kept all the primary care networks in place for GPs and pharmacists. I want to thank everybody for going out there, and particularly our GPs and pharmacists.” “A preliminary scenario, of many being considered to help inform decision-making, presents one of the worst case of all potential scenarios including assumptions that the omicron variant is as severe as the delta variant, an absence of hospital surge capacity, a highly limited booster program, no change to baseline public health and social measures and an absence of spontaneous behaviour change in the face of rising case numbers,” he said.
“Evidence about the characteristics of omicron is still emerging but early trends seen both internationally and within Australia suggest that it is more transmissible.
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