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Australia: Record of COVID-19 deaths in New South Wales

Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, has recorded the highest death toll from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours as the new coronavirus strain Omicron spreads across the country and lawmakers are being pressured to fill growing gaps. in the supply chains.

New South Wales, home to Sydney and home to one-third of Australia’s 25 million people, has recorded 16 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. It also reported 30,062 new cases, which are approaching record levels.

The country’s second largest state, Victoria, which will host the Australian Open this month, announced 44,155 new cases of coronavirus and 4 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.

Australia recorded a total of just under 100,000 new cases in the past 24 hours, up from 116,025 the previous day. The total number of deaths from the disease caused by the new coronavirus amounted to 36 for yesterday.

As the rise in cases pushes for government-funded testing centers, authorities are now urging people to turn to rapid home antigen tests instead and then report the result if it is positive to their doctor, who will then record it in a database.

Authorities have called for calm amid reports of empty supermarket shelves, as people stay home as long as possible to avoid getting infected and distributors are quarantined for exposure to the virus.

“We are seeing very low rates of serious illness,” said Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt. “Workforce licenses continue to be the main challenge (we face) right now,” he said.

The government and its health advisers have reduced the mandatory isolation time for close contacts and limited the definition of close contacts, but continue to reconsider the rules for workers on leave, Hunt added.

Vaccination of children

Australia, meanwhile, plans to start vaccinating children aged 5 to 11 against COVID-19 on Monday. Most states said schools would reopen as scheduled for the end of January, but Queensland, the nation’s third most populous state, said it would postpone returning to school for two weeks to allow children to get vaccinated.

Despite the increase in cases, political leaders cite the high vaccination rate – over 90% of citizens over the age of 16 have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 – to support a reopening plan. However, some states have postponed non-urgent surgeries in recent days to evacuate hospital beds for COVID-19 patients and reintroduced the mandatory use of a protective mask.

New South Wales, which emerged from a lockdown of more than 100 days late last year, has again imposed a ban on dancing and drinking for non-bar eaters.

Source: AMPE

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Source From: Capital

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