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People who attended Splendour in the Grass last month have been advised by NSW Health to stay alert for symptoms of meningococcal disease after the death of a Sydney man who attended the festival and another case.
All ticket holders of the event at the North Byron Parklands from July 21 to 24 received an email on Friday.
“NSW Health has been notified of two cases of meningococcal disease in people who attended the 2022 Splendour in the Grass festival,” the email said.
Authorities warn while the disease is uncommon, it can be severe and people need to act immediately if they see any symptoms, as they can appear suddenly and become serious very quickly.
Australia may have seen the worst of the most-recent wave of COVID-19’s Omicron variant, according to federal Health Minister Mark Butler.
“The data we’re seeing right now indicates we might have reached the peak earlier than we expected to.
“We’re being a bit cautious about that because what we’ve seen through the pandemic is the ‘school holiday effect’, which shows numbers and transmission takes a slightly different course because of different activity in the school holidays.”
The Health Minister said hospital admissions were down, though remained high: about 5,000 admissions across the country.
Surely announcements like that is going to make people more carefree resulting in more deaths.
