During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia at times recorded thousands of cases and dozens of deaths each week. Now, it's a very different story.
Australia appears to have had at least a week where no COVID-associated deaths were recorded for the first time in more than two years. The rolling seven-day average of deaths fell to zero on 29 February this year, according to data from the Department of Health and Aged Care, which dates back to January 2022. While it briefly jumped back up to one on 3 March, it returned to zero two days later.
" Professor Adrian Esterman, chair of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of South Australia, agreed, saying the low rates weren't "really surprising". "Overall we can say that Australia is in a trough, and most of the world is as well," he said. No, not exactly.
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