Infections climbing at slower rate than last month and death rate stable but experts say reporting changes making numbers harder to interpret
and Victoria compared with the beginning of November, and jumped by 20% in the space of a week. The numbers build on the increases recorded last week of 10-15%.were doublingNSW recorded 37,796 new Covid cases in the week to 1 December, a 19% increase compared with the previous week’s 31,531.
Catherine Bennett, chair in epidemiology at Deakin University, said that in the fourth wave case numbers could reflect changes in testing and reporting practices as well as underlying infection rates, making them harder to interpret.
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