COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 74 Reporting period ending 7 May 2023
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.33Keywords:
SARS-CoV-2, novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, acute respiratory disease, epidemiology, AustraliaAbstract
Four-week reporting period (10 April – 7 May 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).
Trends – Nationally, following a relatively low and stable period of COVID-19 transmission from late January to late February 2023, there has been a gradual increase in case notifications since early March 2023. In the four-week period 10 April – 7 May 2023, there were 43,679 confirmed and 76,323 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 60,748 confirmed and probable cases were notified (an average of 4,339 cases per day), compared to 59,254 in the previous fortnight (an average of 4,232 cases per day).
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