Original article by Michael McGowan
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 1-Feb-22

New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has defended his government’s decision to ease COVID-19 restrictions in mid-December, following the revelation that health officials had warned days earlier that the Omicron variant could result in a surge in infections. Perrottet has also conceded that the government had been aware that case numbers, hospitalisation rates and deaths from Covid would rise when the state’s economy reopened. NSW recorded 13,026 new COVID-19 cases and 27 additional deaths from the current outbreak on Monday. There were 10,053 new cases and eight deaths in Victoria, while Queensland reported 7,462 new cases and three deaths.

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