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The COVID-19 iceberg.

#COVID19iceberg #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19

Tasmania COVID weekly update: 29 September to 5 October

🔹New cases: 275 (-2)
🔹Deaths: 0 (+0)
🔹Total deaths: 312 (+0)
🔹Hospital: 16 (-2)
🔹ICU: 0 (-1)

#COVID19TAS @auscovid19

Source: https://health.tas.gov.au/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19/current-risk-level-and-statistics/weekly-statistics

ACT COVID weekly update: 29 September to 5 October

🔹New cases: 168 (-10)
🔹Deaths: 0 (+0)
🔹Total deaths: 279 (+0)
🔹Hospital: 8 (+0)
🔹ICU: 1 (+0)
🔹Vent: 0 (+0)

#COVID19ACT @auscovid19

Source: https://covid19.act.gov.au/updates/act-covid-19-statistics

WA COVID weekly update: 25 September to 1 October

🔹New cases: 660 (+94)
🔹Reinfections: 251 (38.03%)
🔹Deaths: 5 (+1)
🔹Total deaths: 1,246 (+5)
🔹Hospital: 56 (+13)
🔹ICU: 0 (+0)

🔸38.03% were reinfections

#COVID19WA @auscovid19

Source: https://health.wa.gov.au/Articles/F_I/Infectious-disease-data/COVID19-Weekly-Surveillance-Report

SA COVID weekly update: 27 September to 3 October

🔸Federal data

🔹New cases: 645 (-91)
🔹Deaths: NR
🔹Total deaths: 1,620 (+0)
🔹Hospital: 27 (-9)
🔹ICU: 0 (-2)

There were no COVID-19 deaths notified to the Department for Health and Wellbeing in the past week. Please note, Births, Deaths and Marriages data is currently received on a monthly basis.

NR = Not reported

#COVID19SA @auscovid19

Source: https://sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/public+content/sa+health+internet/conditions/infectious+diseases/covid-19/covid-19+dashboard

The 11 COVID symptoms you need to know as Pirola (BA.2.86) strain sweeps through UK.

🔹Continuous cough
🔹High temperature, fever or chills
🔹Loss of, or change in, your normal sense of taste or smell
🔹Shortness of breath
🔹Unexplained tiredness, lack of energy
🔹Muscle aches or pains that are not due to exercise
🔹Not wanting to eat or not feeling hungry
🔹Headache that's unusual or longer lasting than usual
🔹Sore throat, stuffy or runny nose
🔹Diarrhoea
🔹Feeling sick or being sick

#COVID19 #Pirola #BA286 @auscovid19

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/11-covid-symptoms-you-need-31111136

By Scott Squires @scott_squires

"Disney could improve ventilation and could encourage masks to stay safer but nope, just slap a legal disclaimer and you are done. No need to do anything because there are no requirements for any business from anyone."

#COVID19 #WaltDisneyWorld @auscovid19

Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/scott_squires/status/1708948967344709960

ATAGI 2023 COVID-19 booster advice – first and additional dose.

This fact sheet provides frequently asked questions for residential aged care providers and workers on the updated September 2023 ATAGI advice for the COVID-19 booster dose.

#COVID19AUS #ATAGI @healthgovau @auscovid19

Source: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/atagi-2023-covid-19-booster-advice-first-and-additional-dose?language=en

COVID-Related Sepsis Deadlier Than Initially Estimated: Study.

🔹SARS-CoV-2 accounted for approximately 1 in 6 cases of sepsis during the first 33 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

#COVID19 #Sepsis @auscovid19

Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2809966

‘It will happen’: Need to prepare for new pandemic and what we’ll likely be hit with next.

A Melbourne-made COVID vaccine that shows great promise in protecting against Omicron’s many deadly mutations could be mass produced and rolled out across the globe.

#COVID19 #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/covid-vaccine-architects-converge-on-melbourne-to-explain-challenge-of-developing-jabs-at-speed/news-story/27d188699dc7bf0f012d04f338267a2e

NSW COVID weekly update: 22 September to 28 September

🔹New cases: 2,232 (-101)
🔹Deaths: 17 (-4)
🔹Total deaths: 7,717 (+17)
🔹Hospital: 651 (+26)
🔹ICU: 12 (+3)

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(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 23 September 2023

🔸COVID notifications increased by 10.5% in the past week

🔸Increases in COVID notifications occurred for children aged 0 – 4 years and adults aged 30 – 89 years and across most LHDs

🔹COVID: 2,171 (+256)
🔹Influenza: 1,688 (+87)
🔹RSV: 564 (-77)

#COVID19NSW @auscovid19

Source: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/weekly-reports.aspx