A person who took two Queensland flights with Virgin Australia has tested positive to COVID-19, leaving the fellow passengers in quarantine for Christmas.
A major electronic music festival, Lunar Electric, is set to go ahead in Newcastle despite an outbreak of more than 200 cases at the city s Argyle House nightclub, many believed to be Omicron.
While new Covid infections appear to exploding in Australia, at least partly due to Omicron, the familiar daily case numbers is not what scares experts.