COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 82 Reporting period ending 17 December 2023
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.5Keywords:
SARS-CoV-2, novel coronavirus, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, acute respiratory disease, epidemiology, AustraliaAbstract
Four-week reporting period (20 November – 17 December 2023)
Case definitions for confirmed and probable cases are in accordance with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) CDNA National Guidelines for Public Health Units.
Trends – Nationally, case notifications have slowly increased from early October 2023, and appeared to have stabilised in recent weeks. In the four-week period 20 November – 17 December 2023, there were 29,591 confirmed and 10,742 probable cases, a total of 40,333 COVID-19 cases reported in Australia to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). In the most recent reporting fortnight, a total of 20,809 confirmed and probable cases were notified (an average of 1,486 cases per day), compared to 19,524 in the previous fortnight (an average of 1,395 cases per day), representing a 6.5% increase.
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