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News Story Summary:
Here we go again - Together with an increase in the number of people with COVID going to emergency departments who needed to be admitted, the numbers were "likely to mark the beginning of new wave in transmission", the report noted.
Alexandra Martiniuk, a public health expert from the University of Sydney, said the uptick in emergency department presentations indicated the case numbers signalled a true increase.
"What you can see is an aberration where maybe more people got tested. But that is probably reflecting a true increase when you see also an increased bump up in emergency department presentations," she said.
There were 128 people who presented to emergency departments with COVID who needed to be admitted, up from 107 admissions the previous week.
Professor Martiniuk said the small numbers of emergency department admissions could jump around, so another rise next week would be needed to confirm a new wave was underway.
There have been four waves of COVID in NSW since Omicron became the dominant variant at the beginning of 2022, each one smaller than the last.
Original Story By | Catherine Hanrahan