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Covid wave: what are the rules around testing and vaccines in Australia?
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Australia is experiencing its ninth wave of Covid-19 but immunity built up through vaccinations and previous infections is resulting in fewer hospitalisations and deaths, according to the government and health experts.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Aged Care said national surveillance indicators, including average daily case numbers, hospitalisations and ICU admissions, outbreaks in aged care facilities and the dispensing of oral antiviral treatments, suggest that Covid-19 transmission has been gradually increasing since mid to late-August.
Read the original article at The Guardian