COVID-19 Update: Code Brown lifted for Victorian hospitals as NSW prepares for nurses strike

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for February 14.

Nurse preparing a COVID-19 vaccine.

Nurse preparing a COVID-19 vaccine. Source: AAP Image/Albert Perez

  • New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland reported a total of 22 deaths, which is the lowest figure in over a month.

  • Victoria has lifted its Code Brown alert for its health system after more than three weeks. It came into effect in January amid the spike in Omicron cases.

  • The state's Health Minister Martin Foley said on Friday the government is confident the alert can be safely repealed, but hospitals are "still going to be very, very busy".

  • 465 people are now in Victorian hospitals with COVID-19, which is lower than the highest total of 1,229, recorded on 17 January.

  • According to data from the Victorian Health Department, the chance of ending up in ICU for the unvaccinated is 34 times higher than for those who have received a booster shot.

  • Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath reported no big surge in the case of numbers after the first week of school.

  • The Queensland government has announced it will ditch its daily COVID-19 briefings if the numbers of new virus cases, hospitalisations and deaths continue to drop.

  •  From 7am on Tuesday, nurses will strike across New South Wales for the first time in a decade.

  • They are calling for the improvement of nurse to patient ratios and increase pay, with skeleton staff left to care for patients.

Covid-19 Stats

NSW reported 1,649 patients hospitalised with 100 in intensive care. There were 14 deaths, and 6,184 new cases of COVID-19.

In Victoria, 465 people are in hospital with 66 in ICU and 18 on ventilators. There were 2 deaths and 7,104 new infections.

In Queensland, there were 3,750 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths. 514 patients are in hospital with 41 in intensive care.

Tasmania has recorded no deaths with 408 new COVID-19 cases. 12 people are in hospital with COVID-19, one of them in ICU.

ACT has recorded no new deaths and 375 cases. 

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Published 14 February 2022 12:54pm


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