Well thatās good news.
According to the New Times Covid tracker Australia is just in the top 20 most vaccinated countries based on first doses (equal 16th-20th position at around 80%).
We have a bit of a way to go with booster doses at 3.4% but there has been a big uptick in boosters administered the past couple of days.
With the 79000 daily cases in the UK has their been an increase in deaths and hospitalizations?
I donāt think so.
But the lag between cases & deaths is usually 10-20 days I believe?
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I think UK will be 100,000+ tomorrow
The cases in LĆ³ndon have always been much lower than other regions / cities in UK but apparently Omicron is already 50% of all cases In London and doubling every 2 days.
If that rate keeps up we will have 2.4 million cases a day by Christmas Day
I understand case numbers are not the main focus in a highly vaccinated society, but what we also need to understand isā¦ if the UK has 100k +, Aus has 25k + cases per day, this will greatly impact work places / industries / schools and how our towns and cities function.
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Totally agree.
It did the the summer In Uk we had pingdemic. Everyone getting pinged by the App to isolate. We had a shortage of waiters. Bouncers, truck drivers
But have lockdowns cities and society donāt function.
Close hospitality cities canāt function.
Have 100,000 cases a day it will effect society functioning
This is gonna be here for years. Can we still have people isolating in 2023 when they get covid if they are vaccinated?
At some point we have to let go of all this. I donāt know when. But we canāt do this for years to come.
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Interstate transmission? Are they serious? Still trying to divide the country and place blame. Deary me.
Nothing to do with politics or dividing the country. Thatās just a direct quote from the Queensland Health morning report that reports case numbers and where they were acquired.
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Either when covid burns out, we eliminate it, or it runs out of bodies to infect it, I guess.
Or when we start treating it like flu.
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Omicron will likely force us to treat it this way. If it is much more infectious we might see double as many cases than other variantsā¦ but if it remains is milder like a lot of research is suggesting then hopefully there isnāt a significant increase in deaths and hospitalisations. It wonāt be sustainable to be tracking / isolating new cases like we have ongoing. UK are doing a good job at fastracking boosters - hopefully that makes a big difference and in a months time can move on.
The COVID death rate in South Africa is still quite low. Given the variant has been in circulation there for at least a month and a big jump in cases about 3 weeks agoā¦ itās a positive sign. Especially given they have low vaccination rates with only 26% of the population fully vaccinated.
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Yep the statistics look positiveā¦ unfortunately we just need to live with the inconvenience of this prick of a virus.
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So I drove into SA this morning. Border checks still in place, which I wasnāt expecting. It was pretty smooth but still a bit annoying we still need the police checking vaccination and entry status. I was told I must go straight and get a test and not see anyone which did ruin my plans on seeing family on the way home. I did manage to get a test on my way home it only took 5 minutes.
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Has WA reclassified QLD to medium risk yet? I hope there is no bias there against liberal governments.
At this rate WA will be closed to all states and then BOOM open to everyone on Feb 5 lol
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I have a gut feeling that he wonāt open.
Just booked my booster for early January at my local pharmacy. Canāt wait. Getting Moderna this time.
Just need to get these boosters in arm so we are ready for influx of cases January and February.
We need a real push for 5-16 year olds as well.
We need much more vaccine mandates around the country.
Thatāll be jsut my luck. Booked flights (for the 78th time) and treated myself to Business this time.
He will open. He simply has to.