More COVID-19-related deaths have been recorded in Victoria and NSW, while isolation rules for household contacts of people with the virus are tipped to ease in both states:
Australia has recorded another 29 COVID-19-related deaths as NSW and Victoria are poised to scrap the requirement for household contacts of people with COVID-19 to isolate.COVID-19 casesThere are 1,639 people with the virus in NSW hospitals, including 72 in intensive care units . There are 437 patients in Victorian hospitals with COVID-19, including 34 in ICU.
On Tuesday, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said isolation rules and other COVID-19 restrictions could be scrapped after the peak of the Omicron wave."That gives us options in terms of getting rid of the very few remaining rules that we have, and I think you'll see some movement there very, very soon," he told reporters on Tuesday.
"We need to protect people from those households contacts if we're allowing them to leave home without isolation," she told ABC TV on Wednesday.
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