Australia's COVID-19 hospital admissions fall to lowest in weeks

Australia's COVID-19 hospitalisation rate fell to its lowest in nearly three weeks on Wednesday, while a steady rate of daily infections raised hopes the worst of an outbreak fuelled by the Omicron coronavirus variant may have passed. Hospital cases fell to about 4,600 on Wednesday, with all states seeing a dip in admission numbers, after a peak of nearly 5,400 a week ago. 'We've seen the peaks of Omicron, I think, come through in (New South Wales and Victoria),' Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is under pressure over his handling of the Omicron wave, told a media briefing.