Thousands protest in Canberra; NSW records 32 Covid deaths and Vic 19 – as it happened
by Donna Lu, Cait Kelly and Stuart MacFarlane (earlie from on (#5W2A0)
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From AAP:
Queensland's health chief is personally reluctant" to repeal a venue vaccine mandate before the end of winter and says it could in fact be the very last pandemic restriction ditched.
The state's Omicron outbreak peaked on January 25 with 928 patients in hospital and 71 in intensive care, well below a predicted 3000-7000 general admissions and an ICU intake of several hundred.
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