COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 71 Reporting period ending 12 February 2023
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.18Keywords:
SARS-CoV-2, novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, acute respiratory disease, epidemiology, AustraliaAbstract
Four-week reporting period (16 January 2023 – 12 February 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, due to technical reasons.
Trends – A fourth Omicron wave of COVID-19 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 16 January – 12 February 2023, there were 26,423 confirmed and 51,295 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 35,509 confirmed and probable cases were notified (an average of 2,536 cases per day), compared to 42,209 in the previous fortnight (an average of 3,015 cases per day).
Table 6 of this report, on p. 11 of 20, is in error due to the miscalculation of one data column. Please refer to this report’s Erratum (https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.26) to view the corrected Table 6.
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