MELBOURNE, Jan 30 — Thousands of Australian students return to school on Monday after a summer break, as the country remains anxious about the spread of Covid-19, which on Sunday killed at least 88 people in the country.
Fuelled by the fast-spreading Omicron variant, infections have exploded in Australia since December, the beginning of summer in southern hemisphere. In New South Wales, the country’s most populous state, with eight million people, more than 700 have died of Covid-19 this year. In the whole of Australia just more than 3,700 people have died during the pandemic.
On Sunday, at least 88 people died of Covid-19 across Australia. The death rate has increased sharply recently but remains a fraction of what other developed countries have seen.