- More elective surgeries will take place from Monday 21 February in Melbourne and regional Victoria, with a view of re-establishing the 100% capacity the following week, if COVID-19 patients in hospital continue to decrease.
- "With hospitalisations steadily declining and staff availability improving, we're in a strong position to remove the remaining restrictions" said the Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley.
- "All of these rules are being reviewed, and I look forward to making some positive announcements soon", said the Victorian premier Daniel Andrews this morning.
- Infections among Queensland children continue to increase but Health Minister Yvette D'Ath reassures "schools are still managing very well" and no quarantine or closure has been necessary.
- "Vaccination has completely changed the face of this disease" said Queensland's Chief Health Officer John Gerrard, saying that what role COVID-19 plays in leading to the deaths reported daily is often hard to determine.
- The Australian Medical Association and the Nursing and Midwifery Union are calling for a code brown to be formally declared in the Northern Territory.
Covid-19 Australian Stats
New South Wales reported 1,478 patients hospitalised with 92 in intensive care. There were 27 deaths, and 10,463 new cases of COVID-19.
In Victoria, 397 people are in hospital with 68 in ICU and 13 on ventilators. There were 18 deaths and 8,149 new infections.
In Queensland, there were 6,596 new COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths. In the public hospital system there are 404 patients with COVID-19, in addition to 28 patients in private hospitals, with a total number of 38 patients in intensive care.
Tasmania has recorded no deaths with 625 new COVID-19 cases. 13 people are in hospital with COVID-19, two of them in ICU.
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