The Chief Health Officer has provided an update on Covid-19 numbers following the first week back at school for Qld students. Dr John Gerrard said there were 50 times fewer reported cases in school children compared to this time last year. More here:
for healthcare settings, crowded indoor spaces, public transport, and ride-share services.
“We are now going into our fourth year of the pandemic and, effectively, this is a new phase,” Gerrard said, categorising the previous three across as many years as keeping the virus out, vaccinating the population, and introducing it into the community. He said up to 80 per cent of the state’s population may have been infected last year alone and developed immunity from both the virus and vaccinations, with a lower hospitalisation peak during the“This next phase is a critical phase because now we will see what happens in the Queensland population when we have COVID, which isn’t going to go away ... [and] hybrid immunity,” Gerrard said.
“And, at this stage, it’s a bit of an unknown exactly how this will play out during the course of this year. Now we are hoping that that hybrid immunity will protect most Queenslanders against severe disease.
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