New figures show a significant difference between Victoria’s 2020 second wave and the current NSW outbreak – and it’s all due to one thing.
Daily coronavirus cases continue to soar in NSW but the state’s death rate is much lower than at the same point of Victoria’s devastating outbreak last year, figures reveal.
Data shows that NSW has suffered 76 deaths from the 14,684 cases recorded by the 70th day of the Delta outbreak, which was reached this Wednesday, compared to Victoria recording 128 lives lost for 10,349 infections over the same period.
A calculation of deaths-per-case shows Victoria had 1.2 lives lost for every 100 Covid infections by May last year, while NSW’s rate was 0.5 over the same length of time.
Victoria’s second lockdown lasted a total of 111 days ending on October 27.
Infectious diseases expert Peter Collignon told NCA NewsWire that the availability of the Covid-19 vaccine was saving lives.
“Pfizer and the AstraZeneca appear to be 90 per cent-plus effective at keeping you out of hospital and probably even higher at stopping you from dying,” Professor Collignon said.
“If you look at data from overseas, you can see that people who are both hospitalised and who die are disproportionately the unvaccinated – in every age group.”
Professor Collignon said the fact aged care residents had been inoculated was critical to the difference between the two outbreaks.
Figures show there were 655 pandemic related aged care deaths in Victoria out of 1991 infections.
In NSW there have been 34 deaths out of 153 aged-care cases.
“One of the things we have done well so far is that we had probably 90 per cent-plus, of people in aged care vaccinated,” Professor Collignon said.
“If you‘re 80 and you get Covid you’ve probably got more than one in 10 chance of dying, compared to a 30 year old where it’s probably one in 10,000.”
Ms Berejiklian on Thursday announced that the vaccination rate in NSW would need to continue to increase steeply before the state could ease restrictions.
Another 1029 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded on Thursday showing the crisis is far from over.
“We don’t think now is a safe time to relax restrictions,” she said.
“At the moment, we still need to be staying the course and getting more vaccines in and getting those case numbers down.”
Fully vaccinated NSW residents will be able to take advantage of eased coronavirus rules from September 13.
The new rules will be different for people inside coronavirus hot spots and those outside those areas.
But in all areas, those who take advantage of the eased rules must be fully vaccinated with two doses and be able to prove their vaccination status if asked by an official.
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