COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 66 Reporting period ending 25 September 2022
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.73Keywords:
SARS-CoV-2, novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, acute respiratory disease, epidemiology, AustraliaAbstract
As of report 62 onward, the case data provided in this report includes both confirmed and probable cases reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), unless otherwise specified. Case definitions for confirmed and probable cases are in accordance with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Series of National Guidelines for Public Health Units (SoNG).
At the time of extraction, probable cases were not yet available from Tasmania; and were incomplete from Victoria since 29 July 2022 and the Northern Territory since 8 September 2022. At the time of extraction, Queensland was only reporting cases where testing was conducted in a clinical setting; probable cases with self-administered testing were not reported to NNDSS.
Trends – Nationally, weekly case numbers have decreased since the week ending 24 July 2022. In the reporting period 29 August – 25 September 2022, there were 67,160 confirmed and 102,883 probable cases of COVID-19 reported in Australia to NNDSS. In the latter fortnight (12–25 September 2022) of the reporting period, 67,341 confirmed and probable cases were notified (an average of 4,810 cases per day), compared to 102,702 in the previous fortnight (7,336 cases per day); together, these mark the lowest case numbers observed in a reporting period during 2022.
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