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’s newsletter covering the inner workings of federal and state governments, policy, and the people who pull the levers. It’s free, and in your inbox every Friday. Sign upFor the first time in three years, public health officials are not facing the prospect of lockdowns, business closures, work-from-home, mass hospitalisations and spiralling fatalities across the holiday season., appears to be finally peaking in NSW and Victoria, weeks after authorities said it would be short and sharp.
It typically takes an omicron wave six weeks to fade, so there will still be plenty of sickness and deaths before this one is over. COVID-19 fatality reports are being reported differently, which is creating lags, but about 20 people a day are dying. The vast majority of them are in the 70 to 100 age group.
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