Sydney: Australia reported a record of almost 50,000 daily calculation of Covid-19 cases as an Omicron variant competed through a population and sent people to scramble for the test.
While the surge in Omicron does not seem to be a bit of dangerous pain, it has pushed rushed on the faster antigen kit that is managed by itself which is increasingly scarce and creates a queue for hours in centers that provide more reliable PCR tests.
Australia has succeeded in suppressing infection for most pandemics through border closure and aggressive testing and search.
But the previous wave was triggered by the Delta variant destroying zero-covid ambitions in most countries, including the big cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
Now, like many countries, it depends on vaccines for protection with 91.5 percent of the population of more than 16 which are fully vaccinated. About 2.5 million people have received a booster.
Deputy Chief of Medical Officer Sonya Bennett said Australia has recorded 47,738 infections in the last 24 hours, up from around 38,000 cases the previous day, because the omicron variant holds.
Covid cases were hospitalized throughout the country almost doubled a week to 2,362 infections, he said.
But the amount of intensive care is much smaller: 184. And from them, 59 is in the ventilator – does not change from a week ago.
“Talking about significant case numbers, they continue to increase. They are a large number that we have never seen before in Australia,” Bennett said.
“I think at this point we all know someone who has Covid or we have a colleague of work because they are quarantine or isolate or we have events that are canceled and other impacts in our daily lives.”
Preliminary evidence shows that most Covid patients in intensive care have been infected with Delta variants, he said, and significant proportions have not been fully vaccinated or suffer from other diseases.
Although the level of infection that jumped, Scott Morrison’s prime minister had refused to call to make a free fast antigen test.
“We are at another stage of this pandemic now where we cannot spin and make everything free,” Morrison said Monday.
“We have to live with this virus.”