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Covid hospitalisations to grow another 60% from current record, Queensland modelling shows
State government says it is making extra hospital beds available and scaling up ambulance coordination
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Covid-19 hospitalisations in Queensland are not likely to peak for another month, with the latest modelling projecting a maximum caseload of about 1,660 in late August.
The estimate represents a 60% increase of close to 600 on existing hospital numbers, which are sitting at slightly more than 1,000, the highest level of the pandemic so far.
Read the original article at The Guardian