Queensland reports 15 more COVID deaths, with 15 on ventilators - Brisbane Times

While pleased the vaccination rate among First Nations people was higher than that, Ms D’Ath said she was still worried about those communities across the state.

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She would not be drawn on how many of the state’s 153 COVID deaths were among First Nations people, citing requests from families to not identify the deceased.

“There will definitely be a time where we will say how many,” Ms D’Ath said.

She was optimistic about the decline in hospital figures, and said this would probably mean plans being worked through with the nurses union about bringing COVID-positive but asymptomatic and vaccinated staff back to work would not be needed.

About 300 staff deemed close contacts, who were not experiencing symptoms, have already returned to work.

Only one of the state’s hospitals, in the Torres and Cape health region, had so far reached the highest “tier five” point of COVID response levels.

However, this was due to the extra precaution needed for the large First Nations community, not patient admissions. Cases have recently surged in a number of council areas in the region.

Up to four other hospitals across the state were at tier four, Ms D’Ath said.

Chief Health Officer John Gerrard said that, including the number of patients in private hospitals with COVID, the figure “probably” has reached 1000, though authorities had been expecting “multiples of thousands” at the peak of the surge.

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Authorities on Wednesday said that, based on case number trends and declining hospital admissions on the Gold Coast, the tourist region was now on the other side of its peak.

Other parts of south-east Queensland — including metropolitan Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, West Moreton and Ipswich — are expected to experience their peak hospital pressures in the next week, before the surge is felt in other regional areas.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk had urged older Queenslanders to avoid leaving their homes for the next few weeks if they could avoid it, with that cohort most highly represented in the state’s growing death toll.

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