There have been four waves of COVID in NSW since Omicron became the dominant variant at the beginning of 2022, each one smaller than the last.
Professor Martiniuk said high vaccination rates were contributing to the smaller number of cases in successive waves.
"The other thing is that now we have less of a COVID-naive population. So most people have had at least one COVID infection. And so that does protect," she said. She said all the new sub-variants were in the Omicron family, though experts were watching for new variants that could cause bigger waves. "But if we are to keep within that Omicron family the thought is that these waves may stay smaller," she said.
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