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Qld Covid update: chief health officer urges immediate halt to ‘pox parties’ aimed at spreading virus
State records 20,566 new cases amid reports of people deliberately trying to spread coronavirus to increase their immunity
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Queensland health authorities have condemned reports of “pox parties” held by groups of unvaccinated residents on the Gold Coast, which has quickly become the epicentre of the state’s Omicron outbreak.
On Monday another 23 people – enough to fill a separate ward – were admitted to hospital on the Gold Coast after contracting Covid-19. Half of intensive care patients in the region were unvaccinated.
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