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WA COVID weekly update: 11 September to 17 September

🔹New cases: 604 (-9)
🔹Reinfections: 206 (34.11%)
🔹Deaths: 8 (+1)
🔹Total deaths: 1,237 (+8)
🔹Hospital: 39 (-17)
🔹ICU: 0 (-1)

🔸34.11% were reinfections

#COVID19WA @auscovid19

Source: https://health.wa.gov.au/Articles/F_I/Infectious-disease-data/COVID19-Weekly-Surveillance-Report

VIC COVID weekly update: 15 September to 21 September

🔹PCR cases: 826 (+80)
🔹Deaths: 7 (-12)
🔹Total deaths: 8,438 (+7)
🔹Hospital: 143** (+10)
🔹ICU: 8** (-1)

** 7 day rolling average

#COVID19Vic @auscovid19

Source: https://covidlive.com.au/vic

NSW COVID weekly update: 15 September to 21 September

🔹New cases: 2,333 (+313)
🔹Deaths: 21 (+1)
🔹Total deaths: 7,702 (+21)
🔹Hospital: 625 (+19)
🔹ICU: 9 (-1)

#COVID19nsw @ChrisMinnsMP @RyanPark_Keira
@NSWCHO @NSWHealth #PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19

(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 16 September 2023

🔸While COVID-19 notifications were stable. The positivity is comparable to early July 2023.

🔹COVID: 1,915 (-52)
🔹Influenza: 1,601 (-140)
🔹RSV: 641 (-5)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

Source: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/weekly-reports.aspx

"Labor has been accused of running a “protection racket” for state premiers by opting to hold an inquiry into Australia’s COVID response instead of a royal commission with the power to compel witnesses."

#COVID19 #Australia @Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP @auscovid19

Source: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/labor-is-poised-to-announce-a-new-covid-inquiry-amid-calls-to-include-scrutiny-of-states/news-story/e9a0c93a8e015872f9e7d9559ee87361

The 'highly mutated' COVID variant BA.2.86 — known as Pirola — has landed in Australia.

One case has been detected in Australia, in a laboratory in Western Australia, genomic sequencing data shows.

However, there could be more out there because only a fraction of all COVID-19 infections get submitted to for testing.

#COVID19 #Pirola #BA286 @auscovid19

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-21/new-covid-strain-variant-pirola-ba-2-86-in-australia-symptoms/102873304

By Scott Squires @scott_squires

What if you could see COVID?

#WearAMask #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsIAirborne #StopLongCovid #KeepMasksInHealthcare #DoNoHarm @auscovid19

Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/scott_squires/status/1704018462358876429

‘Deep inquiry’ to be held into pandemic, not a royal commission.

#COVID19AUS @Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP @auscovid19

Source: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/deep-inquiry-to-be-held-into-pandemic-not-a-royal-commission-20230918-p5e5hc

"U.S. COVID infections are hovering near levels of the pandemic’s first peak in 2020, and approaching the Delta peak of late 2021, according to wastewater surveillance and modeling by forecasters."

#COVID19US @auscovid19

Source: https://fortune.com/well/2023/09/16/united-states-covid-levels-approach-first-pandemic-peak-2020-who-urges-vaccination-boosters-high-risk/

By Henry Madison @RageSheen

Guy makes sheep noise at person in mask.

'Why the sheep noise?'
'Because only sheep wear masks.'
'Why sheep?'
'Because sheep all copy each other.'
'That guy is the only person I can see in this whole building wearing a mask.'
'...'

#COVID19 #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp @auscovid19

Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/RageSheen/status/1702529038387232990

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 14 September 2023

🔹Active cases: 603 (+87)
🔹Active outbreaks: 107 (+22)
🔹Residents: 465 (+85)
🔹Staff: 138 (+2)
🔹Reported deaths in 2023: 1,097 (+5)

🔸5,864 aged care COVID deaths since beginning of pandemic

🔸686 reported deaths in 2020
🔸226 reported deaths in 2021
🔸3,855 reported deaths in 2022
🔸1,097 reported deaths in 2023

#agedcare #COVID19 @AnikaWells @Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP @auscovid19

Source: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/covid-19-outbreaks-in-australian-residential-aged-care-facilities-15-september-2023?language=en

“COVID is a reminder that infectious disease remains a fundamental threat. The pandemic has killed tens of millions of people, wreaked long-term harm on the health of many more, and triggered global economic disruption.”

#COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/22ddcaab-e5ec-4362-b21c-e88008674a01