21 Feb 2022

Kiwi still suffering from Omicron sounds warning

From Lately, 10:36 pm on 21 February 2022

The Prime Minister says "it's likely that very soon we will all know people who have Covid, or we will potentially get it ourselves." She says there are three reasons that is no longer such a scary prospect. High vaccination rates, Omicron will be a mild to moderate illness and boosters make hospitalisation 10 times less likely. But Omicron still has the power to scare. A  New Zealander living in Hobart, Brad Sutherland, caught the virus at the start of February and is still feeling its effects.