Majority of NSW COVID-19 cases confirmed as Omicron while infections soar again

NSW today reported a record 5715 new COVID-19 infections, and Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant later said up to 80 per cent of the state's cases at the moment are the variant of concern.

"The government is on high alert. I think the community should be on high alert. We don't know yet. It's too early," he said.Long testing lines and changing COVID-19 restrictionsNSW Police will be increasing their presence at clinics due to an increase of "anti-social and aggressive behaviour" due to the lengthy queues.

The planned easing of capacity limits on public transport services will also be delayed until late in January next year."In light of the current environment and measures announced by the Premier today, I have directed this work to be delayed to keep commuters and staff safe," NSW Minister for Transport David Elliott said.NSW today saw another surge in infections, recording 5715 new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.He was not vaccinated and had underlying health conditions.

9NewsAUS They’re both Covid, there isn’t any difference.

9NewsAUS Irresponsible corperate greed agenda driven media maggots misquoting people in their push for lethally irresponsible genocidal Trumpesque RIGHT WING EXTREMIST LNP government open uper at all costs decisions is criminally negligent

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9NewsAUS These medical experts have no brains.. viruses is spreading like a fire and end of day it will destroy humans and communities which will hard to control…

That is not what she said. I'd be annoyed if I was misquoted like that.

But it disrupts all these families that miss Christmas because they have to isolate Failure of Dopey Dom to have slowed this spread.

9NewsAUS It’s supposed to be 🤦‍♀️

9NewsAUS So by that metric she is saying it’s 20% more severe and 80% less severe? The ICU metric used is misleading too, surely if you are sick enough to go to hospital then you are really sick and those numbers are climbing

9NewsAUS Big statement given the data from South Africa is on a much younger cohort, maybe the hospital admissions from omicron are faking😎

I believe Kerry. Her political masters are mutton heads

80 percent less severe then delta! So what are we worried about then?

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