Covid: casos e vacinação na Austrália.
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COVID Update
It has been difficult to predict what the effect of the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron has been. Although experts have said there would be an increase, this is not yet clear, as case numbers have fallen and are now rising again. There were 9,594 new infections reported yesterday.
The number of hospital admissions is continuing to increase, though those in ICU are stable for the moment. These numbers highlight that we must keep taking precautions.
Victorian figures, March 22:
- 52,983 active cases (last week 42,250)
- 7 deaths reported
- 2,682 COVID-related deaths so far
- 256 are in hospital, 24 are in ICU, and 5 of these are on ventilators
- 1,195,239 total number of infections since the pandemic began
You can check the Victorian live update here.
Australia wide: there have been a total of 3,943,245 COVID cases (3,656,931 last week) and 5,736 deaths.
Worldwide: as at March 22 there had been 471,914,860 worldwide infections (461,312,402 last week). The number of official COVID-related deaths is now 6,104,226. (Source: Worldometer.)
Read more: Coronavirus; COVID-19 Victorian situation
Vaccination update
As of March 21, 81.02 per cent of all Victorians had received their second dose, 85.73 per cent had received their first dose, and 50.67 percent had their third dose. This is not high enough, given that it's the third dose that reduces the the chance of being hospitalised by 90 per cent. Also low are the percentages of children between the ages of 5 and 11 who have been vaccinated.
Australia wide, the figures are 81.55 per cent, 86.26 per cent respectively, and 48.64 per cent had received the third shot.
Check the ABC Vaccine tracker and The Age for daily updates.
There is a misconception in the community that the new COVID variants are less serious than the original strains. But as we know, people are still dying from COVID - including young people. Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases physician at the Australian National University, said in an article in The Age this week, that in 2020 the death rate for coronavirus was roughly 1 to 2 per cent of all people infected. This figure soared dramatically for those over 80 years of age. This of course was mainly with the Alpha strain, as opposed to now with Omicron. Post-vaccination, the risk of death still remained dependent on a person’s age and whether they had been vaccinated.
“If you’re a 30-year-old your chance of death was one in 10,000, even a year and a half ago, but being vaccinated sees that drop another twentyfold,” he said. “Those over the age of 70 and the unvaccinated remain at highest risk of severe illness.”
In other words - it's is still extremely important to be as fully protected as possible. To book your third shot today, go to the Victorian government's vaccine booking portal here. Those in the community who are particularly vulnerable are now getting their fourth shot. Read more: People are still dying from COVID. But who? And are they vaccinated? The Age
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