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Qld Covid update: ‘Hundreds of thousands’ of cases possible in January says CHO – video
Queensland’s chief health officer Dr John Gerrard says there are now 25,920 active cases in the state with 23% of tests coming back positive. ‘Even though the proportion of patients requiring intensive care is substantially lower than what we have seen previously, the number of cases we are expecting to see through January, early January will be very high,’ he warns. ‘Certainly in the hundreds of thousands if not more in Queensland.’ Gerrard said each person with Omicron is, on average, infecting 7–10 other people, according to some of the figures that have been quoted
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