Get your booster dose: new bivalent vaccines targeting Omicron variants are available at your GP or local pharmacy.Wear a mask: a high-quality and well-fitted mask can protect you from the virus.These six steps can help you stay ahead of COVID this spring: If you don’t get COVID, you can’t spread COVID. Protecting yourself is the best way to protect yourself and the community. Some 87 per cent of Victorians aged over 12 have had no vaccine nor a COVID diagnosis within the past four months and are therefore more vulnerable to infection and hospitalisation. However, increased numbers overall have contributed to increased hospitalisation rates. There is no evidence these subvariants cause more severe disease or are resistant to oral antiviral treatments. These subvariants became dominant in clinical genomics and wastewater surveillance after overtaking BA.4 and BA.5 in early November. The mix of subvariants include recombinant strains such as the recently identified XBF (a combination of BA.2.75 and BA.5) as well as existing subvariants BQ.1/BQ.1.1, BA 2.75 and the XBB recombinant. Current growth is being driven by a mixture of new Omicron subvariants, which are more immune evasive and are responding to waning immunity from past infection and past vaccination. COVID-19 epidemiological summaryĬOVID-19 cases and hospitalisations in Victoria increased again this week. The number of COVID-related deaths recorded in Victoria so far this year is 4,385. The total number of COVID-related deaths in Victoria since the pandemic began is 5,993. 252 (39.1 per cent) were unvaccinated, 3 had received one dose, 43 had two doses, 116 had received three doses and 230 had received four doses. Of those deaths, 46.3 per cent had not received their third COVID vaccine dose. In the past three months, there have been 644 COVID-related deaths in Victoria. There has been a 30.5 per cent decrease in the number of COVID related deaths in the past month when compared to the previous month. An average of 10 deaths were reported each day in the past week. 70.2 per cent of people aged 16 and over in Victoria have had three doses of COVID vaccine.Ī total of 68 COVID related deaths were reported to the Department in the past week. Of those aged over 65, 90.8 per cent have had their third dose and 67.3 per cent have had their fourth dose. Of Victorians aged 50 to 64 years, 79.9 per cent have had their third dose and 30.2 per cent have had their recommended fourth dose. 959 (29 per cent) were unvaccinated, 27 had received one dose, 351 had two doses, 787 had received three doses and 1,175 had received four doses. 40.5 per cent of those patients had not received their third vaccine dose. In the past three months, 3,299 COVID patients were hospitalised in Victoria. The seven-day rolling average of patients in intensive care in Victorian hospitals is 15. There are 2 COVID patients on a ventilator. There are currently 483 COVID patients in Victorian hospitals, including 19 COVID patients in intensive care and 0 cleared cases in intensive care. The seven-day rolling average of patients with COVID in Victorian hospitals is 430, a 22.2 per cent increase when compared to the same time last week. The number of active cases in Victoria on Friday was 19,460, up from 18,150 the same time last week. The average daily number of new cases this week was 3,183, up from 2,914 last week. There were 22,281 COVID-19 cases reported in Victoria this week, an increase of 9.5 per cent on the previous week.
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