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Queensland COVID warning: ‘Particularly contagious’ new variant set to hit. By Jackie Sinnerton

"A new wave of COVID is expected to hit Queensland in the coming weeks with a new “particularly contagious” FLiRT variant driving up cases."

Source: www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensl...
Qld COVID warning: ‘Particularly contagious’ new variant set to hit Vulnerable Queenslanders have been urged to update their vaccination status amid a warning about a new wave of Covid on the way. Jackie Sinnerton @JSinnerton May 21, 2024 - 2:03PM A new wave of Covid is expected to hit Queensland in the coming weeks with a new “particularly contagious” FLiRT variant driving up cases. Chief health officer John Gerrard issued a warning on Tuesday about the winter blast, urging vulnerable Queenslanders to update their vaccines. The FLiRT tag derives from the technical names of the mutations in the genetic codes of the variants. “We are seeing an uptick in Covid cases and this is due to one of the FLiRT variants — almost certainly driven by one of these fluid variants particularly the very important KP3, a particularly contagious form of Covid. “The numbers have started to rise and we will expect the numbers to increase significantly in the coming weeks. The illness looks similar to other forms of Covid,” Dr Gerrard said. “This is another new sub-variant. What is critical though is that those people who are most at risk of Covid now get their boosters. We are talking mostly about people over the age of 70. We’ve seen a little bit of a drop off in those boosters in older people, which is the group that we’re most concerned about,” he said. “There is also a subgroup of younger people with more severe forms of immunosuppression that (are) also included in this group but we’re mostly talking about the older age groups.” he said.
May 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM