There are now 543 infected people in Victorian hospitals, with 75 in intensive care and 23 on ventilators.Victoria’s pre-Omicron peak for Covid hospitalisations was 851 in October when the state was battling a surge in Delta infections.However, the figure is dwarfed by the 1795 people in NSW who are in hospital with Covid.More than 93 per cent of eligible Victorians are fully vaccinated and the state has 55,946 active cases.A total of 23,866 PCR tests were taken on Wednesday and 14,863 vaccines were administered at state hubs.It comes after the state government has ramped up testing within schools and early education facilities and this week announced rapid antigen tests would be free for the families of young children.Mr Andrews said it would give parents peace of mind.“It is wildly infectious, young people can have it and not present with any symptoms, (but) if you can find those cases, then you can do something about it and cut off those chains of transmission,” he said.NSWNSW has recorded another 24 Covid-19 deaths and 10,130 new cases in the past 24 hours.Thursday’s update from NSW Health shows there are 1795 Covid patients in hospital, with 121 in intensive care. More than 10,000 positive tests were recorded in the last 24 hours.This included 5824 results from rapid antigen tests and 4306 from PCR tests. More than 45 per cent of eligible people in New South Wales have had a third vaccine dose.The NSW government will on Thursday relax Covid hospital visitation rules following a backlash from families blocked from seeing dying relatives during the state’s Omicron surge.Premier Dominic Perrottet on Wednesday said changes to limits on visitors would help reunite families restricted from seeing loved ones in hospitals for almost two months.Most pandemic restrictions are set to be scrapped on February 27 with health authorities also reviewing when non-urgent elective surgery can resume at public hospitals.QUEENSLAND Twenty four people have died from Covid-19 in Queensland in the past 24 hours, with more than half of those in aged care.Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said it was the highest number of deaths the state had recorded so far.6902 new cases were recorded and 2935 of those were from positive rapid antigen tests.The figures come after Queensland hit its coveted 90 per cent double vaccination rate on Tuesday.The state’s Check In app was also scrapped for several businesses but indoor mask wearing and vaccination requirements for hospitality venues will continue.
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