Over 900 people are in hospital with COVID-19 across NSW, including around 150 in intensive care. The hospitalisation rate has also surged 42% in the last week, with Premier Gladys Berejiklian warning that this is likely to peak in October:
The number of people admitted to hospital with COVID-19 has jumped 42 per cent in one week, with infected patients spread across 35 of the state’s hospitals and more than 1400 healthcare workers now in isolation.
Swelling case numbers have forced the private hospital network to activate surge plans and deploy their nurses to public hospital intensive care wards…
