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"Victoria has reached another grim milestone, recording more than 4,000 COVID
deaths since the pandemic began.
Victoria recorded 16 new deaths and 8,740 new cases of the virus on Tuesday
There are now 543 people in hospital with COVID-19, of whom 28 are in intensive
care, and five are on a ventilator.
Over the course of the pandemic, more than 2 million Victorians have contracted
and recovered from the virus.
The state only surpassed 3,000 COVID deaths two months ago, on May 6.
From June 24, Victoria relaxed some of its remaining COVID restrictions,
meaning masks no longer have to be worn at airports and mandates for three
vaccine doses no longer apply for jobs including teachers and meat and seafood
processing workers.
Masks remain mandatory for people aged eight and above in some settings,
including public transport and healthcare environments such as hospitals.
Wastewater testing continues to paint a picture of the situation in Victoria,
with the latest data showing that Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 are the
dominant strains in major population centres such as Melbourne and Geelong.
At the beginning of May, those sub-variants were identified in less than 5 per
cent of samples, but as of June 27 they were present in 43.5 per cent of the
samples."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
