Australia's Covid-19 death toll has surpassed an unfortunate record, with 1003 people now having died from the virus.
Australia's Covid-19 death toll has surpassed an unfortunate record, with 1003 people now having died from the virus.
In a statement last week, the Doherty Institute – whose modelling the national pandemic exit plan is based off – said that if Australia opens "up at 70 per cent vaccine coverage of the adult population with partial public health measures, we predict 385,983 symptomatic cases and 1457 deaths over six months".
The latest four deaths came from NSW, with two men in their 70s and a woman in her 60s dying in Sydney hospitals and a man in his 50s who died at Dubbo Hospital – marking both the first death reported in western NSW and the first reported death of an Indigenous Australian since the pandemic began.
"Any death is tragic and we are particularly concerned about the case numbers in far west and western NSW because of the over-representation of Aboriginal people and the likelihood that Covid will be, and is, touching Aboriginal people disproportionately," NSW's chief health officer Kerry Chant said during the state's update today.
"There are very strong vaccination efforts in those local communities and I call upon all community leaders to encourage high uptake and I have been pleased that some of the towns have had incredible uptake."
The huge portion of the deaths across Australia caused by Covid-19 occurred in Victoria, where the devastating outbreak in Melbourne contributed to the total number of fatalities in the state reaching 820 people.
NSW has reported 149 deaths (93 of which have occurred since June 16), Tasmania has so far reported 13, nine in WA, seven in Queensland, four in SA, and three in the ACT.
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World Health Organisation (WHO) adviser and UNSW epidemiologist Mary-Louise McLaws has described trying to control the Delta variant as "nearly impossible".
Appearing on the ABC's Afternoon Briefing, Professor McLaws said, with that in mind, Victoria "have done particularly well" in containing their current outbreak, though their hospitalisation rate is similar to NSW.
"If you look at their rolling average, they are doing particularly well, although with Delta, nothing is handled very well because Delta is so difficult to get a handle on," she said.
"So I think comparing the two cities is a little difficult because we have very different population densities as well and, of course, in NSW we had it quite well spread and then – now we're getting a creeping from hotspots into other areas that are becoming hotspots – whereas Victoria has done very well in the regional areas in keeping it out."
Australia's Covid-19 death toll has surpassed an unfortunate record, with 1003 people now having died from the virus.
In a statement last week, the Doherty Institute – whose modelling the national pandemic exit plan is based off – said that if Australia opens "up at 70 per cent vaccine coverage of the adult population with partial public health measures, we predict 385,983 symptomatic cases and 1457 deaths over six months".
The latest four deaths came from NSW, with two men in their 70s and a woman in her 60s dying in Sydney hospitals and a man in his 50s who died at Dubbo Hospital – marking both the first death reported in western NSW and the first reported death of an Indigenous Australian since the pandemic began.
"Any death is tragic and we are particularly concerned about the case numbers in far west and western NSW because of the over-representation of Aboriginal people and the likelihood that Covid will be, and is, touching Aboriginal people disproportionately," NSW's chief health officer Kerry Chant said during the state's update today.
"There are very strong vaccination efforts in those local communities and I call upon all community leaders to encourage high uptake and I have been pleased that some of the towns have had incredible uptake."
The huge portion of the deaths across Australia caused by Covid-19 occurred in Victoria, where the devastating outbreak in Melbourne contributed to the total number of fatalities in the state reaching 820 people.
NSW has reported 149 deaths (93 of which have occurred since June 16), Tasmania has so far reported 13, nine in WA, seven in Queensland, four in SA, and three in the ACT. There have been no deaths reported in the Northern Territory.
Nearly 750 of the total deaths occurred in those aged in their 80s and 90s.
Good news for Western Australia and the Northern Territory, where there have been no new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
In WA, there are currently 24 active cases – five of which are returned overseas travellers in hotel quarantine and the other 19 are crew members on the MV Ken Hou vessel.
In the Top End, there're three active cases – one from interstate and two returned overseas travellers.
The Guardian reports that the entire NSW prison system has been put into lockdown, after an outbreak at the privately-managed Parklea jail in Sydney's north-west.
On Sunday, 31 cases of Covid-19 were recorded at the correctional centre – the largest outbreak among the prison population since the pandemic began.
In light of the outbreak – and a number of inmates at prisons across the state being identified as contacts of those cases because of transportation between facilities – Corrective Services NSW has made the decision to lock down the whole system across the state.
Level 4 restrictions will remain in place in Auckland – where the bulk of New Zealand's cases in its current outbreak reside – for at least another fortnight.
After the country reported 53 new community cases today, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that everywhere south of Auckland would move to level 3 measures tomorrow night, and Northland was expected to join them on Thursday night.
There are 547 cases in Auckland and 15 in Wellington.
"As we saw from this outbreak, it only took a week for one case to spread across the city. And that's why we're working so hard to get this right," Ms Ardern told reporters.
She urged those in parts of the country where restrictions will be downgraded to continue exercising "caution, and staying in your bubble…distance, and contactless transactions".
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