COVID 19 CASE NUMBERS FROM AROUND THE STATES AND TERRITORIES
0COVID 19 case numbers from around the states and territories
Here's a quick wrap of each Australian jurisdiction's latest COVID 19 statistics today — Tuesday. April 19. You can get a more detailed. visual breakdown through the ABC's Charting the Spread story here. This list will be updated throughout the day. so if you do not see your state or territory. please check back later. You can jump to the COVID 19 information you want to read by clicking below. Victoria There have been another seven COVID 19 deaths in the state. There are 443 cases in hospital. with 31 of those in intensive care and 10 requiring ventilation. There were 8.976 new cases today. up from 7.918 cases yesterday. We thank everyone who got vaccinated and tested yesterday. Our thoughts are with those in hospital. and the families of people who have lost their lives. More data soon: https://t.co/OCCFTAtS1P#COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData pic.twitter.com/rfn4w5boZY — VicGovDH (@VicGovDH) April 18. 2022 NSW The state has recorded eight more COVID 19 deaths. There are 1.623 cases in hospital. 70 of them in intensive care. That's up from the 1.576 cases and 67 ICU admissions reported yesterday. There were 10.856 new cases announced today. down from 11.166 yesterday. COVID 19 update – Tuesday 19 April 2022 In the 24 hour reporting period to 4pm yesterday: 96.1% of people aged 16+ have had one dose of a COVID 19 vaccine 94.7% of people aged 16+ have had two doses of a COVID 19 vaccine pic.twitter.com/gTya1E4HBi — NSW Health (@NSWHealth) April 18. 2022 Queensland No new deaths from COVID have been recorded in the state. Another 6.467 new cases were reported. up from 5.141 for the same period yesterday. There are 564 people in hospital. 20 of those in ICU. and the state has 43.251 active cases. Tasmania There have been 1.418 new cases of COVID 19 recorded in Tasmania during the latest reporting period. up from yesterday's 1.372. There are now 8.953 active cases in the state. down from 9.372 yesterday. There are 47 people in hospital with COVID 19. with 22 being treated specifically for the virus. No new deaths have been reported. Western Australia Western Australia has recorded 6.107 new cases of COVID 19. meaning there are just under 40.000 known active cases in the state. There are 247 people with COVID 19 in hospital. and six are in intensive care. No COVID related deaths were reported today. ACT Canberra hospitals are currently caring for 64 patients with COVID 19. That's the highest number in more than two months. However. only two of the patients require intensive care. The ACT recorded 816 new infections yesterday. while the number of people known to have the disease fell to just over 5.000. South Australia The number of active COVID cases in SA has fallen below 30.000. with the state's Police Commissioner declaring it’s 'pretty safe' to assume the peak of its current coronavirus wave has passed. SA recorded 3.829 new cases today. as well as the deaths of a man and two women. all aged in their 80s. The number of people in hospital with COVID 19 remains steady at 245. with 11 in intensive care. Police Commissioner Grant Stevens says recent data has been tracking broadly in line with government modelling. 'I think it’s pretty safe to assume that we are over the peak. but we still have some period of time when we’re stepping down from that peak that we could see changes in case numbers on a daily basis.' he said earlier today. 'The long weekend over Easter obviously saw a significant downturn in people who were turning up for testing so we’ll have to see what that looks like later in this week.' He said the hospital system appeared to be coping with the current caseload. and efforts to secure additional beds have 'progressed quite well'. “Over the last month there has been some effort to identify some additional beds.” he said. Northern Territory The NT has recorded 475 new COVID cases. with the number of known active cases across the territory falling to just under 3.000. Three people are...
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