Vic hospitals 準備する for COVID-19 influx
Victoria's hospitals are 準備するing for a wave of COVID-19 患者s in coming weeks, as the 明言する／公表する 注目する，もくろむs 緩和するd 制限s once more people are vaccinated.
On Friday Victoria passed its 的 of 70 per cent first-dose ワクチン接種s for 適格の 受取人s, after a 記録，記録的な／記録する 43,993 jabs were 配達するd at 明言する／公表する-run 中心s in the 先行する 24 hours.
The 明言する／公表する 記録，記録的な／記録するd 510 new coronavirus 感染s on Friday - 95 per cent from Melbourne's north and west - and a woman 老年の in her 50s died.
The number of COVID-19 患者s 存在 認める to the 明言する／公表する's hospitals has risen by more than 450 per cent in 最近の weeks, with 37 患者s three weeks ago and 208 患者s in hospital on Friday.
There are 49 people in ICU with COVID-19, and 32 of those are on ventilators.
More than 100,000 doctors, nurses, paramedics and other health 労働者s 問題／発行するd a 共同の 嘆願 through their unions for "正確な modelling" on 推定する／予想するd 救急車 需要・要求する, hospitalisations, 集中的な care 患者s and deaths.
Health 大臣 ツバメ Foley said these 労働者s had "株d their 関心s very forcefully" with the 明言する／公表する 政府.
"They've 表明するd, やめる rightly, their 関心s about what would happen if we continue to have high levels of uncontrolled 感染s in our community," he said.
"We're working with them, and we're working with our health services, to make sure that we have 計画（する）s in place to try to 避ける that."
He said capacity is 存在 規模d up across Northern, Alfred and 王室の Melbourne hospitals 同様に as specialist children's and women's hospitals in Melbourne with 500 ICU beds 利用できる and 4000 ventilators.
準備s are also 進行中で to bring other hospitals in Melbourne and 地域の Victoria up to 速度(を上げる）.
"Our health 労働者s have been 絶対の 支持する／優勝者s for all Victorians over the last 20 months and are 疲労，（軍の）雑役d and are tired and nonetheless know that there are 抱擁する challenges for them in the next couple of weeks, if not month, ahead as we 推定する／予想する this 現在の trajectory of 感染s to rise," Mr Foley said.
ワクチン接種s are the main 大勝する to 避ける 増大するing hospitalisation 率s, the 大臣 追加するd, with 87 per cent of hospital 患者s not vaccinated, 12 per cent 部分的に／不公平に and いっそう少なく than one per cent fully vaccinated.
"The best thing we can all do, if those numbers 増加する, is get ahead of that 増加する by に引き続いて the 支配するs, getting 実験（する）d and getting vaccinated," Mr Foley said.
The 明言する／公表する 政府 on Sunday 計画（する）s to 明らかにする／漏らす "careful, 手段d 過程s" to 緩和する COVID 制限s, taking into account "first and 真っ先の" the safety and wellbeing of Victorians.
一方／合間, modest changes to 制限s for Melbourne and Ballarat will come into 影響 at 11.59pm on Friday to 示す Victoria reaching its first ワクチン 的.
の中で the changes, people will be able to 会合，会う one person from another 世帯 for a walk or picnic, outdoor 演習 time is 二塁打d and the travel 限界 拡大するd to 10km.
Fully vaccinated adults can see five people from two 世帯s, 加える dependants for a picnic.
Mr Foley 明らかにするd some 混乱 about whether people 集会 in small groups will be 的d by police for drinking takeaway alcohol.
"Once you get your takeaway, whatever it is, move away before you 消費する it," he said.
While police will not 施行する whether groups of five have all been fully vaccinated, he 警告するd they will 施行する "spontaneous group of 30, 40, 50".
対立 MP Tim Smith said the 制限s were "becoming farcical".
