Sydney: Australia introduces Covid-19 restrictions such as masks of masks wearing indoors, capacity limits and QR check-in codes to cover most of the population on Thursday because daily infections reach a new record, driven by an omicron variant that is very contagious.
Changes to 17 million people two days before Christmas marked the reversal of a permanent return plan after almost two years of stop-starting-starting as a new variant of raging through the community regardless of the double vaccination rate of more than 90%.
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Inpatient and death remain low, but the explosion of infection has created the risk of health care workers poured out by testing positively, the authorities said.
The country recorded more than 8,200 new cases, so far the biggest daily increase since the pandemic began, from the previous record 5,600 the day before, mostly in the state of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria.
NSW, home to Sydney and a third of 25 million Australian populations, said it again made it obliged to wear masks in the room in public places, while the place was told to limit visitors and reactivate customer check-in through the QR Code.
“Today’s changes are simple, careful and take a preventive approach when we move through this holiday period until the end of January,” said New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet told reporters.
Until Thursday, Perrottet urged the country to postpone plans, agreed between state and federal leaders, to eliminate restrictions after the vaccination rate exceeds a certain level.
PERRROTET firmly refused to reintroducing mandated indoor masks, a step called by the State Health Doctor and Assistant, said it was time to stay with Covid-19.
Victoria, who has a population that is almost the same, also reintroducing the mask mask, quoting the need to reduce pressure on the health system.
Western Australia, which has had very few cases and almost disconnected from other countries, ordered the closure of nightclubs and major public events, dance prohibitions and masks must wear in the city of Perth, after a positive French backpacker, allegedly with a Delta variant.
The man had attended many clubs and other public indoor places, the authorities said.
Scott Morrison’s Prime Minister has vowed not to return to locking, say Australians must now take personal responsibility for managing their health.
In changes to other messaging on Thursday, PERRROtet urges people to avoid covid tests if they have received notifications to become possible contact with infected people but do not experience symptoms.
With a waiting time report for hours at the test center, blamed on people who plan to travel between countries before Christmas, Perrottet says that “this places great pressure on the system but we need to make sure people who need to be tested are tested the right way time “.
Most states require travelers to have a negative test results 72 hours before departure to be allowed to enter, even when Morrison urges them to facilitate testing requirements.
Apart from the case surge, hospitalization remains much lower than during delta waves, with around 800 people in hospitals from nearly 44,000 active cases.
But only 37 of them are the Omicron case, the health department said in email response.
Only one case in intensive care and no death reported from the Omrican variant.
Even in the midst of omicron waves, Australian calculations 273,000 infections and 2,173 deaths are much lower than many countries.