Australia – Intensive care admissions from the Omicron variant have been “minuscule”

Local media (The Australian newspaper (may be gated) ): only 0.1 per cent of cases in NSW and 0.3 per cent of cases in Victoria needing urgent

Local media (The Australian newspaper (may be gated) ):

only 0.1 per cent of cases in NSW and 0.3 per cent of cases in Victoria needing urgent treatment.
Chief medical officer Paul Kelly said the low hospitalisation rate was due to a world-leading vaccination rate and the fact Omicron did not appear to lead to as serious illness as previous Covid-19 variants.