21 Jan 2022

Covid-19: emergency doctors preparing for Omicron onslaught

From Morning Report, 7:47 am on 21 January 2022

Counties Manukau DHB has this morning released a range of projections on just how bad Omicron will hit the Auckland region.

Director of Population Health Dr Gary Jackson's findings show case numbers across the region of between 1500- 1800 cases per day by March and April - if an outbreak were to start in February.

Cases would drop away to the low hundreds by May, through to September.

Emergency medicine specialist Dr John Bonning talks to Sarah Robson.