Nine million Australians could have contracted COVID-19 by the end of the year but state health departments forecast the current wave to peak next week.
Nine million Australians could have contracted COVID-19 by the end of the year but state health departments forecast that the current wave may peak as soon as next week.would plateau from next weekQueensland chief health officer John Gerrard said his state was “about two weeks behind NSW” when it came to COVID-19 case numbers, while South Australian Premier Steven Marshall said modelling showed infections would peak in that state any time from January 15 to January 25.
The projections suggested there will would be 3158 coronavirus-related hospitalisations, including 270 intensive care admissions, as the omicron wave peaked towards the end of January.“It is going to be a difficult few weeks ahead but the tracking that we are releasing today is very reassuring and encouraging given where we sit today in the pandemic,” NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said.
“As a population that doesn’t mean you don’t still have a lot of people in hospital and even in intensive care, although it’s still disproportionately the non-vaccinated. Dr Chant said not everyone in NSW would get omicron in the first wave and the current run of case numbers will go down.