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The decision should be made on a “hospital-by-hospital basis,” he said, factoring in the individual hospital’s COVID-19 admissions and staff and resource capacity, along with the broader impacts of lifting the code brown declaration and opening up elective surgeries in other parts of the state.
“Some services really are very concerned that they’re not ready to just start doing category 2 again straight away because until code brown ends on Monday, we don’t know how long it’s going to take to get back to normal,” Mr Symondson said.
Around 93 per cent of Victorians have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 50 of the population aged over 18 have received a booster dose. There were 15,429 inoculations administered at state-run sites across Friday.
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Fewer than 500 people in hospital as Victoria records 7224 new COVID-19 cases
Source: Philippines Alive
