Australia, the ‘pandemic free country’, registers more than 100,000 daily cases of coronavirus for the first time

Australia registered this Saturday for the first time more than 100,000 daily infections of coronavirus covid-19 due to the strong impact of the omicron variant, which has tripled infections in recent weeks. The region of New South Wales, the most populated and hardest hit by the omicron variant, reported 45,098 infections and 1,795 hospitalizations this Saturday, while the neighboring state of Victoria, the second most populated, registered a daily record of 51,356 infections. .

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In the case of Victoria, which accumulated more than twice as many cases as the previous day, the authorities counted the 20,000 cases of rapid antigen tests carried out between last Saturday and Thursday.

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The state of Queensland, which had until recently prevented the massive spread of the virus, also posted record daily numbers with more than 11,000 cases today.

This record in the number of daily infections occurs while international attention is focused on the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic, number one in the world, who remains in a Melbourne hotel waiting for a judge to decide on Monday whether to revoke his visa for failing to comply with the measures against covid-19.

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The increase in cases comes as the most populous states in the country have decided to suspend non-urgent surgeries and have begun to implement new limitations in social life to try to manage the pressure on their hospitals.

Despite the rise in cases, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison assured earlier this week that he would maintain his economic reopening plans.

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“We have changed gears … We are managing in a different way to be able to live with the virus. People can keep working, children can go back to school when it starts again. People can keep their businesses open and earn a living, ”Morrison said.

Until the end of last year, Australia, which has more than 90% of its target population vaccinated, maintained a tough policy of confinement for a few cases in addition to strong restrictions on its international borders.

The Australian government’s new strategy includes a commitment to the use of home antigen tests over PCR, which will not be subsidized, which has created a strong demand for these pharmaceutical products.

After days of shortages of home antigen tests, which have risen in price by at least 50% and are sold on the black market, as well as long lines at clinics to undergo PCR tests, it is feared that many cases remain unreported, as well as an explosion of infections.

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