Covid hospitalisations to grow another 60% from current record, Queensland modelling shows
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#61T7A)
State government says it is making extra hospital beds available and scaling up ambulance coordination
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Covid-19 hospitalisations in Queensland are not likely to peak for another month, with the latest modelling projecting a maximum caseload of about 1,660 in late August.
The estimate represents a 60% increase of close to 600 on existing hospital numbers, which are sitting at slightly more than 1,000, the highest level of the pandemic so far.
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