Media Releases & Advice Documents

Floods and COVID-19: OzSAGE urges governments to act immediately to prevent further illness and death. The floods in Northern NSW and Queensland are a public health catastrophe which will worsen the ongoing transmission of COVID-19 and increase the numbers of people with severe illness while the local health systems are already compromised by flooding and […]

21 February 2022  In December 2021 we saw a surge in Omicron  which resulted in preventable illness, death and severe societal impacts. There have been more deaths from Omicron in January and February 2022 than the whole of 2020 and 2021 combined. The Australian Bureau of Statistics confirms that deaths were due to COVID-19, and […]