Australia news live update: ‘significant decrease’ in NSW Covid cases predicted for coming month; rapid test price gouging referred to police

Here’s a summary of all the Covid numbers from the day so far:

Victoria reported 22,429 new Covid cases and six deaths
Roughly half the positive cases were reported from PCR test results, and half from rapid antigen tests.

There are 1,229 people being treated in hospital with Covid in Victoria, including 129 in intensive care. Intensive care numbers are relatively stable, while hospitalisations have jumped by 115.

NSW reported 29,504 new Covid cases and 17 deaths
The 11,858 positive cases reported from rapid antigen tests were from the previous seven-day reporting period, and were not necessarily detected in the past 24 hours.

There are 2,776 people being treated in hospital with Covid-19 in NSW, including 203 requiring intensive care. ICU numbers have jumped by 12 overnight, while hospitalisations have jumped by 126.

Tasmania reported 1037 new Covid cases and no deaths
727 of these cases were reported from rapid antigen tests.

There are 21 people in hospital and one person in ICU. Those numbers are staying relatively stable and actually decreased by one overnight.

Queensland reported 15,122 new Covid cases and seven deaths
30,963 tests had been conducted. There are 702 people being treated in hospital in Queensland, and 47 in ICU, including 15 people requiring ventilation. None of the people who died in Queensland had had their booster shot.

ACT reported 1,601 new Covid cases, one death
878 cases were recorded by PCR test and 723 from rapid antigen tests.

There are 52 people in hospital in the ACT, 4 people in intensive care and two on ventilators.

South Australia reported 3,829 new Covid cases
PCR tests account for 2,860 of those and 969 were from rapid antigen test reports. 227 people are in hospital, 26 in ICU and 5 people are on ventilators.

Northern Territory records 284 Covid-19 cases
149 of these were from rapid antigen test reports. There are currently 39 patients in NT hospitals with Covid-19 and 25 of these are considered to be acute cases.



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