Victoria records 20 Covid deaths, NSW 12 and Qld 10 – as it happened
by Lisa Cox and Nino Bucci (earlier) from on (#5W9VW)
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In Victoria over the past week, this is how Covid hospitalisation and ICU numbers have tracked, starting with today's figures and working backwards: 365 (55 in ICU); 451 (64), 401 (78), 397 (68), 441 (67), 465 (66), 465 (62).
So in NSW over the past seven days, this is how hospitalisation and ICU numbers have tracked, starting with today's figures and working backwards: 1297 (81 in ICU); 1381 (92); 1447 (92); 1478 (92); 1583 (96); 1649 (100) and 1614 (93).
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