COVID-19 reinfected over 20,000 people in most populous Australia’s New South Wales state.
Health authorities in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state – which includes Sydney – said they looked at the data of 639,430 people infected with COVID for the first time in January when the omicron wave took off, ABC News reported.
The analysis showed that during the last five months 3.2% people were again infected by the virus.
Australia is facing the third wave of the omicron sub-variant.
According to the Australian Health Ministry, 49,556 new cases were registered across the country over the past day, pushing the total number of cases to over 9.2 million with 11,387 deaths.
Over the last week, Australia registered 268,210 new cases, with 419 COVID-19 related fatalities
