More Covid-19 patients
Winter omicron wave hits Australia
07/20/2022, 09:39 am
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Australia is being swamped by a third omicron wave with highly contagious subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. The number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 is nearing a record high.
Authorities urged companies to let their employees work from home and recommended wearing masks indoors. Vaccinations should be urgently boosted given the outbreak. More than 300,000 cases have been registered in the country in the past seven days, but authorities believe the real number could be double that and “millions” of new cases could emerge in the coming weeks. With 53,850 new cases on Wednesday, the highest daily value in two months was reported. So far in Australia, 95 percent of those over the age of 16 have received two doses of the vaccine, and around 71 percent have received three or more doses.
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