Analysis: WA Premier Mark McGowan regularly refers to the NSW death toll during COVID press conferences – here's why that might be a mistake
There is much apprehension over how COVID-19 will impact Western Australia once the border is lifted.
The deaths were in women aged 90, in their ‘late 80s’, 80, 79 and 36, who all had serious underlying health conditions. “Because we have no flexibility at all with our hospital staff capacity, as staff have isolated because they’ve been either infected become a close contact, it’s meant a devastating lack of staff available to provide other health services.
Many people are working from home, where possible, and choosing to minimise their movements which is having a negative impact on hospitality Essential workers, such as medical staff and food suppliers, were also granted special exemptions to continue working if they were a close contact but had no symptoms, so long as they returned a negative rapid antigen test each day.
“It didn’t work with Delta because Delta moves too fast and Omicron is more infectious and constantly has a shorter incubation period again. “People [who could work from home] did that, but if you’re working in construction or hospitals, hospitality or retail, you can’t. So, it’s been a disadvantage for those sorts of industries.”South Australia reopened its border on November 23 once it reached a vaccination target of 80 per cent double-dosed.
University of South Australia professor of biostatistics Adrian Esterman said the restrictions – in place before being eased on January 29 – helped slow the spread to a manageable level. “But if you go to Glenelg, our seaside place, its restaurants are packed, but it’s mainly youngsters there. I think most older people are being very careful.”Existing baseline restrictions had to be tightened a month into living with COVID to include the four-square-metre rule, household limits of 10 and mask mandates. The rules were eased and QR check-ins at shops abandoned a month later.
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