Australian authorities urge businesses to let staff work from home as Covid infections near record levels with more than 300,000 cases recorded last week amid third Omicron wave
About 5,300 Australians are currently in hospital with Covid-19, not far off the record 5,390 recorded in January during the BA.1 outbreak, official data shows.
"We need to do some things differently at least for a short period of time," Australia's Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly toldRadio on Wednesday, as he predicted the number of people ending up in hospitals will soon hit an all-time high.Australia is in the grip of a third Omicron wave driven by the highly transmissible new subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, with more than 300,000 cases recorded over the past seven days, even as authorities flagged the actual numbers could be double.
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