"SENSIBLE" measures like wearing masks in high-risk places should not have been terminated ahead of winter, as the region's health services brace for the impact of a tsunami of viruses and public health officials warn the worst is yet to come.
This week the Hunter has recorded about a thousand COVID-19 cases a day, with a third of those likely to be the new Omicron sub-variant BA.5, Hunter New England Health physician Dr David Durrheim said.
