{"id":12436,"date":"2025-05-01T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=12436"},"modified":"2025-05-01T22:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:48:48","slug":"urgent-health-warning-ahead-of-virus-explosion-about-to-strike-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=12436","title":{"rendered":"Urgent health warning ahead of virus explosion about to strike Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A top professor has warned Australians will battle Covid outbreaks \u2018indefinitely\u2019, as the country reaches the five-year anniversary of the onset of the pandemic.<\/p><div class=\"xjzlx69f571480fbf3\" ><div style=\"width:100%; max-width:1200px; margin:0 auto;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/bolt-casino.com?r=0BFDBF1283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n    <img \n      src=\"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f8693ebb-2018-480f-a2f7-0096810c07f0.jpg\" \n      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class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In February, the\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">World Health Organisation<\/span>\u00a0identified the strain as one of two increasing on a global scale, though the risk to public health was classified as low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While the variant does not appear to cause worse symptoms than its predecessors, recent testing has found it could be more contagious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Several factors have sparked an explosion in cases according to associate professor James Trauer, a respiratory and public health physician from Monash University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Immunity wanes pretty substantially over three to six months, [but]\u00a0also the virus evolves,\u2019 he told Daily Mail Australia this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The associate professor said the immunity people developed from previous Covid infections will not fully protect them against LP.8.1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018We\u2019re going to see Covid epidemics indefinitely for many years into the future because immunity does wane fairly rapidly,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-adabe07e92d1dee5\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/05\/01\/02\/97894029-14662553-Australians_are_bracing_for_an_explosion_of_Covid_cases_this_win-a-1_1746062367048.jpg\" alt=\"Australians are bracing for an explosion of Covid cases this winter as the fifth anniversary for the pandemic passes (pictured, Sydney's CBD)\" width=\"634\" height=\"425\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"viewGalleryText-NXaet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Australians are bracing for an explosion of Covid cases this winter as the fifth anniversary for the pandemic passes (pictured, Sydney\u2019s CBD)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9cb634aa9a649d9f\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/05\/01\/01\/97894037-14662553-image-a-26_1746061153493.jpg\" alt=\"Covid samples are seen being tested in a NSW Health pathology lab in Sydney's east\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"viewGalleryText-NXaet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Covid samples are seen being tested in a NSW Health pathology lab in Sydney\u2019s east<\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">What can Australians do?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Prof Trauer\u00a0said the best protection for people, particularly those who are immunocompromised or vulnerable to Covid, is through vaccination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018The most recent vaccines are likely to be the most protective against the [variant] that\u2019s around at the moment,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But he added that Australians \u2018don\u2019t need to panic or worry about it the way we did when Covid first emerged\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It\u2019s a totally different kettle of fish,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-subhead news-ccox\">Who needs to get a Covid vaccine?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">For young, healthy people, particularly those without symptoms, the physician said there is no reason to change daily behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018If you do have symptoms, then also be conscious of that and and don\u2019t go into situations where you could infect somebody who is elderly or at higher risk,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img 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