Some Australians are battling their fifth bout of COVID-19 as the Christmas period fuels another surge of infections and newer sub-variants make it increasingly difficult to predict the latest wave.
For some, their re-infection is milder, but others are more sick with the virus than they’ve ever been.Jason South
His warning comes as Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton confirmed on Friday that the state’s latest wave was being driven by multiple immunity-dodging Omicron offshoots most notably the recombinant strain XBF, which now makes up almost a third of wastewater detections. Omicron sub-variants BQ.1/BQ.1.1 are also circulating widely, making up 18 per cent of the state’s wastewater detections, while BA.2.75 and its sub-lineages account for a little over one in five wastewater samples. Another group of variants, which cannot be classified due to new mutations, make up 21 per cent of detections.Sutton said that in the past three months there had been 637 COVID-related deaths in Victoria. Of those deaths, 49.6 per cent were unvaccinated and 43.
Griffin said on the flipside, others tended to have milder bouts of the virus during successive re-infections. He suspects this could be partly due to a hybrid immunity provided by the combination of vaccines and pre-infection.
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