Meanwhile NSW recorded 22 new Covid-19 deaths and 6686 cases,This was a drop from Saturday’s figures, when NSW recorded 8183 new cases and 32 deaths. Victoria’s new case rate stayed virtually steady, dropping just one from Saturday.Of today’s Victorian cases, 4679 came from rapid antigen tests and 2545 came from PCR tests.In NSW, 2385 cases came from PCR tests while 4301 were detected from rapid antigen kits.Queensland has recorded 3660 new cases and South Australia registered 1372 as of Saturday night. The drop in cases in NSW came just days after the state made a major rule change over visiting terminally ill people in hospital.Earlier this week, hospital visiting guidelines had been changed to allow family members of terminally ill people to see their loved ones before they die.It came after weeks of pressure on the government and Premier Dominic Perrottet conceding there had been “many heartbreaking stories” over hospital restrictions.Victoria will ease its “code brown” hospital restrictions from Monday. The restrictions were activated in January after high numbers of hospitalisations during the Omicron wave, allowing hospitals to postpone staff members’ leave and redeploy workers to areas of urgent need.In Victoria, 465 people have been hospitalised, 62 are in intensive care and 17 are on ventilation.Those figures mark a slight decrease in the past 24 hours after health authorities reported 487 people were in hospital a day before.NSW still has by far the greatest number of people hospitalised with Covid-19. On Sunday, there were 1614 cases in hospital, including 93 people in intensive care and 42 on ventilators.Meanwhile ACT Police have told anti-vaccine protesters in Canberra to move on today.Up to 10,000 protesters descended on Parliament House on Saturday as part of the ‘Convoy to Canberra’ protests against vaccine mandates.Many of the group have been staying at the Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC) in the capital’s north after being evicted from their previous illegal campsite across from the National Library in the parliamentary triangle.But the situation will come to a head today, with ACT Police saying anyone without a booking will have to move on so preparations for the Canberra show can begin.There is no specific time for the demonstrators to leave but authorities insisted the campsite would need to be vacated on Sunday.“ACT Policing is working with EPIC management today to notify campers that they will need to vacate the site by the end of the weekend,” a spokesman said in a statement.
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