COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 70 Reporting period ending 15 January 2023

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  • COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, GPO Box 9484, MDP 14, Canberra, ACT 2601.

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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.12

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

Abstract

Four-week reporting period (19 December 2022 – 15 January 2023)
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).
The Australian Capital Territory did not supply hospitalisation data from 12 November to 24 November 2022 and testing data from 12 November 2022, due to technical reasons.
Trends – A fourth wave of COVID-19 Omicron transmission began in late October 2022, driven by a combination of existing and newly emerging Omicron subvariants. Following the peak of this wave in mid-December 2022, case numbers have been decreasing nationally. In the four-week period 19 December 2022 – 15 January 2023, there were 93,122 confirmed and 152,896 probable cases of COVID-19 reported in Australia to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). In the most recent reporting fortnight, a total of 82,277 confirmed and probable cases were notified (an average of 5,877 cases per day), compared to 163,741 in the previous fortnight (an average of 11,696 cases per day).

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COVID-19 Epidemiology and Surveillance Team. 2023. “COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 70 Reporting Period Ending 15 January 2023 ”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 47 (February). https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.12.

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