Parents urged to get their teens vaccinated as NSW records 260 new COVID-19 cases

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NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant is urging parents to get their teens vaccinated over the summer holidays amid fears cases of the new Omicron variant will continue to climb.

NSW has recorded 260 new cases of COVID-19 and two deaths from 58,706 tests undertaken in the 24-hours to 8pm on Monday.

More than 81 per cent of teens aged 12 to 15 have had one vaccine dose and 77.2 per cent are fully jabbed. Meanwhile, NSW Health is monitoring a local cluster of the Omicron variant, with 14 cases linked to a school and climbing gym in Sydney's west and southwest, among the state's 25 recorded cases of the new strain."It is expected that our numbers linked to this cluster will rise as further results are confirmed," she said on Monday.Three new cases of COVID-19 linked to the Omicron variant have been detected in the ACT.

However, due to Omicron cases, close contacts and household contacts will still need to undergo 14 days of quarantine, regardless of their vaccination status.

 

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Chant you are an absolute F'wit. I can't go to the Club because I'm not injected the BIO WEAPON. So how did the Covid's get into these Clubs when everybody is Vaxxed ? it appears the Vaxx'ed are attracting the Covid's like a Magnet, because it's NOT affecting the UN Vaxxed.

So many scared, misinformed individuals here.

Man, you can’t pretend virus does not exist but keep asking public take vaccines. It just not right

How does she know if the vaccine will work against omicrom. Nobody does yet. I agree in vaccination but if this new variant is not as dangerous then there's no need to panic.

More scare campaign

Don't inject children nor teens with any mRNA injections as effects from such injections for young ones are worse than from a covid infection.

Omicron is carried by the injected & is transmitted by the injected, it makes no difference if a person is injected or not as to whether they'll acquire an Omicron infection, they'll all spread it if precautions such as masks, social distancing, testing, quarantine, don't occur.

Pandemics tell us much about each other and ourselves, children are guided by parents but parents differ in their ability to think which leaves us with the present problem

What's the strategy here? Pfizer and Moderna say they can tweek their mRNA to omicron in ~ 100 days.

Parents with teens urge CHO to dial up the data and dial back the fear.

Wow. Haven't heard from Chant in a while. I do hope she is ok. Have they started listening to health advice again now?

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