Queensland's Chief Well being Officer says the state is approaching a second peak in COVID-19 infections, with a brand new ban on elective surgical procedure into account as extra well being employees are required to isolate.
Chief Well being Officer Dr John Gerrard confirmed the state was experiencing a second wave of Omicron infections, with 10,777 new instances recorded right this moment.
Of the brand new instances, 2373 kids are newly contaminated with the brand new Omicron sub-variant BA.2, sparking renewed calls for folks to have their kids vaccinated.
Dr Gerrard stated two-thirds of all recorded COVID-19 instances in Queensland have been from the brand new subvariant.
"It does appear to be significantly impacting kids attributable to low vaccination charges," he stated.
"Though we're approaching that peak, the height will not be the tip we're midway by the wave."
Hopsitalisations are anticipated to rise with issues extra well being employees will likely be compelled to isolate after contracting the virus.
Eight extra individuals with coronavirus have misplaced their lives in New South Wales and Victoria, with two and 6 new deaths recorded in every state respectively.
NSW recorded 25,495 new infections right this moment, whereas Victoria recorded 10,424.
COVID-19 instances have elevated in NSW, however decreased in Victoria from yesterday.
Right this moment's figures come after NSW recorded 17 deaths yesterday. That is the best quantity since 20 February, 2022.
Thus far greater than 3,500 individuals have died from COVID-19 throughout Australia in 2022.
That is greater than the variety of deaths in 2021 and 2020 mixed, which the Federal Authorities states is round 2,239.
This quantity is underneath fixed overview nonetheless.
In an replace given yesterday, Director of NSW Well being, Jeremy McAnulty stated the state has recognized further COVID-19 associated mortalities.
The state did this by cross-checking dying certificates from the registry of births, deaths and marriages in the course of the course of the pandemic.
"Evaluation of this information has discovered a further 331 COVID-19 associated deaths from January 2020 - March 2022," he stated.
"The certifying physician discovered COVID-19 because the contributing issue or explanation for dying. Greater than 270 or 82 per cent ... have been discovered to have occurred from the first of January 2022 in the course of the peak of the Omicron wave.
"Fifty eight deaths occurred throughout 2021, largely coinciding with the height of the Delta wave, and three in 2020."
NSW's complete dying toll for the reason that starting of the pandemic is now 2431.
Hospitalisations are additionally trending upwards in NSW with admissions at 1345.
ICU wards are treating 43 coronavirus sufferers.
In Victoria admissions dropped barely to 310, with 12 instances in ICU.
Queensland reported 7289 new instances of COVID-19 and 5 extra deaths.