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Health Minister admits COVID-19 modelling failed state plans 

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Queensland’s Health Minister admits COVID-19 modelling released earlier this year failed to predict the severity of Queensland’s latest wave.

It comes as the state reports a further 6,682 new cases for the last 24-hour period, taking the number of active cases up to almost 50,000.

Meanwhile, the number of people receiving treatment for either COVID-19 or the flu in state hospitals is nearing a thousand.

“We thought, and the advice we were getting in the modelling we saw at the start of the year, is you’d expect each wave … would slowly reduce and our immunity would build,” Yvette D’Ath said at a press conference this morning.

“But with these new variants and sub-variants, we’re not seeing that.

“We don’t know what’s coming but we know what we can do to slow down the spread.”

 

 

Image: Nine News 

 

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