COVID-19 / Australia / Final Update.

Most pandemic restrictions including density limits and QR codes will be scrapped in NSW from today.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has announced a raft of measures would be eased 10 days earlier than expected.
From February 25, mask rules will be mandated only on public transport, planes and indoors at airports, hospitals, aged care, corrections facilities and indoor music festivals with more than 1000 people.
More details below.

As our state government (and that of Victoria) now considers the pandemic virtually over this will (hopefully) be my last ever Covid update.

But I have said that before.

Cases and deaths will obviously continue for some time but I guess it’s time to draw the line and get on with our lives.
We will continue to wear masks in public and avoid potential social spreading events where possible until the middle of the year to be on the safe side.
Below are the most recent Australian wide statistics covering the entire pandemic time line so far.

Update: 12th March

Latest Australia Wide Statistics.

• 26,063 new reported cases: 8911 in NSW, 5499 in Victoria, 3797 in Queensland, 4037 in Western Australia, 2099 in South Australia, 923 in Tasmania, 599 in the ACT and 198 in the Northern Territory.
• The national death toll is 5591 (+4): Victoria 2645 (+1), NSW 1981 (+1), Queensland 634 (+2), South Australia 222, ACT 37, NT 31, Tasmania 26 and WA 13. (Two Queensland residents who died in NSW have been included in the official tolls of both states).
• There have been 55,149,115 vaccine doses administered in the national Covid-19 rollout up to Sunday, including 34,594 recorded in the previous 24 hours. Of that total, 34,764,919 have been administered by commonwealth facilities, an increase of 15,603 in the previous 24 hours.
• State and territory facilities have administered 20,384,196 vaccines, an increase of 18,991 in the previous 24 hours.
• 96.55% of people aged 16 and over have had at least one dose of a Coivd-19 vaccine and 94.75% are double vaccinated.
• A total of 12,209,966 people have received more than two doses - with a booster or top-up shot - an increase of 14,145 in the previous 24 hours.