Almost 1000 coronavirus swabs re-tested for the Omicron variant show no evidence the strain was circulating in NSW before November 23, leading health officials to believe an international arrival is the source of the south-west Sydney cluster.
With 20 cases now linked to a local cluster across two Regents Park schools and a climbing gym, Sydney Catholic Schools have given their principals the choice of switching to remote learning early, or continuing until the end of term four.Parents at St Pius Catholic Primary School in Newtown were told in a letter on Tuesday that the school would be doing remote learning for the final three days of term, from next Monday until December 13.
NSW’s 20 locally acquired cases are all linked to transmission at two schools and a climbing gym in the Regents Park and Villawood areas, mostly among school-aged children. ANU infectious diseases specialist Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanayake said it was “reassuring and somewhat surprising” that Sydney’s locally acquired Omicron cases were all linked, given others who caught the variant overseas had been in the community while infectious.“It’s only around day 10 of the illness that they really end up in hospital,” he said, noting Australia’s Omicron infections were less than a fortnight old.
James Wood, a mathematician at UNSW’s School of Public Health and Community Medicine, said recent data from South Africa raises some concerns about the speed of the variant’s spread in a population with high levels of previous infection.“Within a couple of weeks it seems likely that South Africa will have a large national epidemic in a country that has three big waves of infection. It looks like Omicron evades our immune response to some extent and that raises some concern,” he said.
Globalbiosec The US also found cases dating back to Nov 22.
How do these health workers stuff it up regularly...........still learning?
MEDIA IS THE NEW DANGEROUS VIRUS..CHECK BELOW ALL REPORTS SAYS THIS VIRUS DOESN'T CAUSE BIG SYMPTOMS..AND IF IT REPLACES DELTA ITS A GOOD SIGN ITS DEPLETING.
Can you you guys just not report anything. This covid bullshit is old news already
So it's already there? Time to do away with the latest 72 restriction and go back to what was working.
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