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Rare look at ACT data

The ACT government's coronavirus advice suggests the outbreak is shrinking afterOmicron spread rapidly when it hit Canberra in December.

The latest epidemiological report suggests a positive outlook ahead, with the rate of known infections slowingthroughout January, especially the last week.

That's despite more lab testsand the introduction of home-testing kits three weeks ago.

The positive test rate, which can indicate how much undetected disease is in the community, also fell.

Throughout this outbreak, the number of patients in Canberra hospitals has been about 60, at the higher end of the government's forecasts.

Health officials also provided a rare insight into the vaccination status of Canberra's COVID patients.

In general, the ACT government doesn't reveal much information about who gets infected with coronavirus, including whether they're vaccinated.

But its latest epidemiological report describes hospital admissions in the last week of January.

Based on this small sample, unvaccinated people were three-and-a half times more likely than fully vaccinated people to end up in hospital.And seven times more likely to be in the ICU.

Data from New South Wales authorities, who publish far more information about the pandemic,suggestthe probability of ending up in intensive care is actually 15 times higher for unvaccinated people.

Reporting by Markus Mannheim

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