Australia is in the grip of an eighth COVID wave, but health officials remain confident in their decision to end the country’s emergency response, arguing the nation will now take a “new business as usual” approach.
Infectious disease experts and doctors say the pandemic has left the world with a new and nasty respiratory virus that will challenge health systems indefinitely. But they agree Australia is past the emergency phase, with the latest wave of infections predicted to be less severe than before.
Kelly said the end of the CDINS declaration would have no significant impact on the management of the disease in Australia, but the National Incident Centre in Canberra, which had been running since 2019 through a number of disasters, has been closed for the first time in more than four years.There were 1239 Australians hospitalised with COVID-19 last Friday – the highest number since July, though well down on the earlier, which peaked at 2771 hospitalisations in early June.
“The sad, unavoidable fact is the world is now a slightly more dangerous place because not only is influenza circulating, but so is SARS-COV-2,” he said. “It’s a new normal,” she said. “A couple of years ago, we didn’t know anything about it … now it’s a big part of lots of presentations.” This week, Melbourne GP Dr Vyom Sharma had his last shift at a general practice respiratory clinic that is no longer funded by government. He can’t remember the last time he sent a COVID-19 patient to hospital, but emphasised it remains a costly disease for many.
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