Chief Health Officer Dr John Gerrard has said declining hospitalisation numbers on the Gold Coast indicated the region might have reached the “peak” of the current wave.
“This is the peak, it’s not the end,” he said.
“The end will not be for a number of weeks.”
He said hospitalisations were lower at this point than expected, which he attributed to behavioural changes in the public to avoid COVID-19.
“We were anticipating several thousand people in hospital,” he said.
Hospitalisations statewide have nonetheless risen slightly today, up to 878 from 863 yesterday.
There are 50 people in intensive care, of whom “no less than 40 per cent” are unvaccinated.
Of the 13 most recent deaths, four were in their 70s, seven in their 80s and two in their 90s.
Three were unvaccinated, one had received one jab, and nine were fully vaccinated, but none had received a booster.
Dr Gerrard also said the number of hospital staff and police officers in isolation had declined “slowly but steadily” in the past five days.
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