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Covid cases rise in weekly report

More than 700 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Canberra, according to the latest report by ACT Health.

ACT Health has published the statistics for the past week, reporting that 731 new covid cases were recorded between the period of October 20 to October 27.

The number of new cases are up from last week’s 579 and 657 the week prior.

Forty three people were in Canberra hospitals with the virus this week, including one person in intensive care.

Since March 2020 the ACT has recorded a total of 208,495 covid cases.

More than 60 per cent of people aged 50 and over in the ACT have received four doses of a covid vaccine.

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2 Responses to Covid cases rise in weekly report

Neil, of Queanbeyan says: 29 October 2022 at 10:59 am

Huh, back to over 100 new cases per day. I must admit that I expected the numbers to go the other way. With no requirement to isolate, no requirement to report, I thought the number of new cases would go down because people would not bother to get tested, but the number in hospital would go up because not getting testing and not isolating does not mean that the virus has magically disappeared. I was wrong (this week). I note that the number of new cases is not only higher than the last two weeks, but it is the highest number since 16/9/22 – the first weekly report. But surely that was the aim with the removal of the isolation requirement.

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