Not less than 55 deaths in January have been COVID-related, WA Well being claims.
As predicted in final weekend’s The Sunday Instances, it was the best month-to-month toll in a 12 months.
Eight males and eight girls died within the week ending January 28. All have been aged over 60.
The 16 matched the loss of life toll for the earlier week.
The seven-day common of at present hospitalised COVID instances decreased from 160 to 143 within the week to January 28. Intensive care unit instances remained the identical at six.
New hospital admissions fell from 46 to 31, with simply affected person admitted straight into intensive care.
In line with the most recent Perth wastewater sampling, 85.8 per cent of detected Coronavirus was the highly-mutated JN.1 sub-strain.
