As NSW braces for a “peak in cases”, there’s an alarming sign the system will struggle to cope, with a staggering amount of Covid patients now in hospital.
Welcome to our coverage of NSW’s Covid-19 situation.
The state’s virus crisis is continuing to explode, with grim new figures showing more than one in 10 people with the virus in NSW now require hospitalisation.
According to the latest NSW Health figures, the current hospitalisation rate for the embattles state is 11 per cent.
And with a “peak in cases” looming in the current weeks, there are growing fears the system will struggle to cope in the weeks ahead.
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More than one in 10 with Covid in hospital
As reported above, more than one in 10 people in NSW diagnosed with Covid now require hospitalisation.
But that figure could be just the tip of the iceberg for two concerning reasons.
Firstly, NSW Health itself has revealed that grim number is actually likely to be far higher.
That’s “because there can be a delay between a person becoming ill with Covid-19 and subsequently requiring a hospitalisation, and because cases in the current outbreak have a median of 11 days between onset and death, hospitalisations and deaths are under-reported,” according to the newest surveillance report.
And secondly, that figure is set to rise in the weeks ahead, with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian revealing a “peak in cases” was still coming.
“All the modelling indicates to us that the peak is likely to be here in the next week or two, and the peak in hospitalisation and intensive care is likely to be with us in October,” Ms Berejiklian said.
NSW’s Covid plan as ‘peak in cases’ loom
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has repeatedly warned citizens the state’s Covid situation will get worse before it gets better – and we’ll find out just how bad that will be this week.
Ms Berejiklian is set to release modelling in the days ahead which will reveal just how dire the Covid crisis will be in October, which experts believe will be the toughest period since the pandemic began.
“All the modelling indicates to us that the peak is likely to be here in the next week or two, and the peak in hospitalisation and intensive care is likely to be with us in October,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“I will present the modelling this week which will include not only what is foreshadowed to be a peak in cases but also the peak in hospitalisation, the peak in intensive care. They are relevant factors.”
Lockdown enters 11 weeks
Covid-weary Greater Sydney residents are waking to their eleventh week in lockdown, as the current restrictions drag on.
The city first entered lockdown back in June.
Since then, it has been extended multiple times, with a string of new rules announced.
On Sunday, NSW recorded 1485 new cases and three deaths.
450k Pfizer doses land in Sydney
An extra 450,000 Pfizer doses have landed in Sydney overnight thanks to a dose swap deal with the UK.
The jabs came to Australia from London via two flights, with the first flight carrying 164,970 doses while a second carried 295,500.
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