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SoHiHello t1_jdjhdxp wrote

Reply to comment by IseereydarReturns in What happened to the old COVID variants, like Delta? Could they come back? by number1dork

Didn't Australia have very low peaks or am I thinking New Zealand?

Low peaks are easy to hit again without it being too problematic.

If India was hitting previous peaks I'd think we have a massive problem.

Can you give some context for Australia?

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Whimsical_manatee t1_jdjoy9m wrote

Australia had very aggressive lock downs to manage Delta, since most Australians still weren't vaccinated in the second half of 2021 and some states were entirely COVID free and wanted to stay that way.

The hard lockdowns significantly slowed the spread of Delta but weren't able to drop the numbers. In NZ they were able to reduce number of Delta cases but their lock downs were in even stricter (take-away food was closed for five weeks I recall) and ultimately they decided to relent a little, there was a hard boundary around Auckland and changed lockdown levels from 5 to 4 I believe.

I can't remember the Australian hospitalisations numbers from that time but you might be able to find them online somewhere, try ABC or Chris Billington.

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