New South Wales looks set to scrap one of the last remaining covid measures within days - mask mandates in hospitals for staff, patients and visitors.
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00:00 It hasn't really made a big impact in terms of the proportion of cases of COVID that we've
00:07 been seeing, but it's certainly starting to dominate in other parts of the world like
00:11 the United States.
00:13 Look, the nomenclature is really confusing even for us, but basically from BA2, you had
00:21 two types of BA2 that combined many months ago to form something called XBB.
00:28 And from XBB, we've had lots of descendants and relations, including 0.1, 0.9, which has
00:36 dominated much of the Australian winter.
00:39 And ERIS or EG.5.1 is part of that XBB family.
00:45 And it's got two mutations, F456L and Q52H, which make it a bit more evasive.
00:55 But from an Australian point of view, because XBB has dominated our winter, we've got good
01:02 immunity for that.
01:03 And we're seeing that by the fact that the number, the height of the peaks that we're
01:08 seeing and the increased interval between peaks is a good sign that we're doing well.
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