Australia should brace for more COVID-19 deaths for the next few weeks, authorities said on Wednesday, as record infections fuelled by the Omicron outbreak overwhelmed health systems.
Both New Zealand and Australia responded with stringent lockdown measures to a relatively small number of new coronavirus cases detected - a move that has received.
While Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Darwin - which begun its curbs on Monday - are all in lockdown, coronavirus cases have proved stubbornly difficult to suppress.