COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 63 Reporting period ending 3 July 2022
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.49Keywords:
SARS-CoV-2, novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, acute respiratory disease, epidemiology, AustraliaAbstract
Four-week reporting period (6 June – 3 July 2022)
As of report 62 onward, the case data provided in this report includes both polymerase chain reaction (PCR) confirmed and rapid antigen test (RAT) probable cases reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), unless otherwise specified. Case definitions are in accordance with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) National Guidelines for Public Health Units (SoNG).
At the time of extraction, RAT probable cases were not yet available from the Northern Territory, or Tasmania; nor from Victoria since 13 June 2022, nor from Western Australia since 26 June 2022. At the time of extraction, Queensland was only reporting RAT cases that were conducted in a clinical setting; self-administered RAT probable cases were not reported to NNDSS. Data was not available from Western Australia since 29 June 2022.
Trends – Nationally, weekly case numbers remained relatively stable since early June 2022. In the last four weeks from 6 June to 3 July 2022, there were 290,724 PCR confirmed and 379,244 RAT probable cases of COVID-19 reported in Australia to NNDSS. In the most recent reporting fortnight, a total of 337,316 confirmed and probable cases were notified (an average of 24,094 cases per day), compared to 332,652 in the previous fortnight (23,760 cases per day).
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