In a rare rebuke of Beijing, the UN agency said China was using a ‘very narrow’ definition of Covid deaths on Wednesday, warning that official statistics were not showing the true impact of the virus.
NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant has echoed concerns from interstate counterparts that new Omicron sub-variants BQ. 1 and XBB will start to run rampant across Australia.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) statisticians estimate around 1.1million people were infected with the virus on any given day in the week up to September 24 in England.
A new strain of Covid can overrun the immunity from vaccines and previous infections and is threatening to put even more pressure on hospitals struggling to cope with winter diseases.
Researchers from the University of Liverpool now believe the ‘outbreak’ of acute gastrointestinal (GI) disease may have been caused by a type of coronavirus.
As the World Health Organisation declared Europe as moving towards ‘a kind of pandemic endgame,’ infectious disease experts believe the worst of the outbreak in Australia is over.
Speaking at a press conference on Friday, chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant revealed a coroner had reviewed the deaths of 28 people who had died with Covid over the past week.
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