Another 9684 COVID cases in SA

This week, 9684 individuals in South Australia examined constructive for the virus, 684 greater than final week, however the variety of infectious individuals in hospital dropped from 140 to 128.

PCR testing elevated by simply over 5 per cent over the previous week, with 4799 of the 26,496 exams returning constructive outcomes, on high of 4885 constructive fast antigen exams.

Newest genome sampling outcomes present the bulk – 61 per cent – of samples analysed had been BA.5 and associated variants.

BA.2 and associated variants accounted for 32 per cent of analysed samples, adopted by BA.4 with 1.5 per cent of samples.

SA Well being this afternoon reported 12 extra COVID-19 deaths from individuals aged from their 30s to 90s, together with two deaths in individuals aged underneath 70 years.

There are eight COVID-positive individuals in intensive care.

Chief public well being officer Professor Nicola Spurrier mentioned final week that the curve from the most recent COVID wave was flattening shortly.

She mentioned the state was “getting in direction of the height”.

“Till we truly see the case numbers come down, I can’t let you know and formally say that we’re on the peak, however we’re definitely at that high and at that plateau, which is clearly excellent news,” she mentioned.

Some 37,796 individuals in New South Wales had been identified with the virus this week, 6000 greater than final week, whereas Victoria’s weekly whole of just about 27,000 was 5000 up on final week.

– with AAP