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Canberra, Aug 4 Australia's Health Minister Mark Butler on Thursday said it was too early to tell if the peak of the winter Covid-19 wave has passed.Speaking ahead of a meeting with state and territory counterparts, Butler said he is optimistic the number of new ases each day could fall, reports Xinhua news agency."Certainly the data we're seeing right now indicates that we might have reached the peak earlier than we expected to," he said in a press conference in Canberra.Butler added that "we're being a bit cautious" about that, because of the school holiday effect, which shows that numbers and transmissions take a slightly different course because of the holidays."Hospital numbers pleasingly are down. They're still high, at about 5,000 across the country but they're certainly down from the peak we saw a couple of weeks ago," he said.Australia's coronavirus infection rates remained high over recent weeks, with more than two million new cases recorded since the start of June during which more than 3,500 deaths have been reported.The country has reported a total of 9,517,174 Covid cases and 12,026 deaths, and approximately 327,464 active cases, according to the latest data from the Department of Health.On Thursday, there were more than 30,000 new cases reported across the country and over 80 deaths.The federal government is urging as many people as possible to get their booster vaccines, with five million eligible Austral yet to receive a third dose."I really, really encourage anyone who is eligible for a booster shot, whether it's a third dose or a fourth dose, get it now, get the vaccine that is in front of you," Butler said.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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