Australia remains confident in its decision to end the country's emergency response to COVID-19 despite being in the grip of an eighth wave. Health officials argue that the nation will now adopt a 'new business as usual' approach, relying on immunity from vaccinations and previous infections.
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.
“There’s still a possibility that we could have a brand new variant of concern, but when we look at what’s happened since late 2021 when Omicron came into being … we’ve had literally hundreds of subvariants … of Omicron, but nothing’s really pushed ahead in a different way.” “We don’t expect notifications or, more importantly, hospital numbers to get too much higher or too high,” he said.The mathematical biologist and epidemiologist said it was a sensible time for an official end to the emergency response, but said it was important that Australia maintained its pandemic improvements in monitoring infection spread, and expand them to other pathogens such as the flu.
Van Leeuwestyn said many patients think COVID is “gone”. In reality, it’s one of the key conditions she is considering when people see her with a range of different symptoms, from fevers to gastrointestinal upset. Kelly also said people in vulnerable groups should speak to their GPs about their plan to get oral antivirals immediately after they test positive to COVID .
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