COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 51 Reporting period ending 26 September 2021

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  • COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team, Australian Government Department of Health, GPO Box 9484, MDP 14, Canberra, ACT 2601. Email: epi.coronavirus@health.gov.au

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2021.45.54

Keywords:

SARS-CoV-2, novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, acute respiratory disease, epidemiology, Australia

Abstract

Trends – The weekly number of new COVID-19 cases has remained stable in the last two weeks. The daily average of 1,704 cases for this reporting period was similar to the previous fortnight’s daily average of 1,629 cases. There were 23,855 cases of COVID-19 reported this fortnight, bringing the 2021 cumulative case count to 70,616.

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COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team. COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 50: Reporting period ending 12 September 2021. Commun Dis Intell (2018). 2021;45. doi: https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2021.45.50.

COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team. Technical supplement. COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology reporting. Commun Dis Intell (2018). 2021;45. doi: https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2021.45.2.

Australian Government Department of Health. Vaccination numbers and statistics. [Internet.] Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health; 2021. [Accessed on 28 September 2021.] Available from: https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/covid-19-vaccines/numbers-statistics.

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC). SPRINT-SARI: Short period incidence study of severe acute respiratory infection. [Internet.] Melbourne: Monash University; 2020. Available from: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/sphpm/anzicrc/research/sprint-sari. a Source: NINDSS, extract from 28 September 2021 for notifications up to 26 September 2021. Excludes cases where age or sex data is missing. b Population data based on Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Estimated Resident Population (ERP) as at June 2020. c Note the change to focus on rates in this year only. For cumulative rates since the beginning of the epidemic in Australia, readers are encouraged to consult previous reports.

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Published

08/10/21

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COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team. 2021. “COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 51 Reporting Period Ending 26 September 2021”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 45 (October). https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2021.45.54.

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Vol. 45 (2021)

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COVID-19 epidemiology report

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