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The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia was a part of the worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first confirmed case in Australia was identified on 25 January 2020, in Victoria , when a man who had returned from Wuhan , Hubei Province, China , tested positive ...
An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic. [1] Due to the long time spans, the first plague pandemic (6th century – 8th ...
Beginning in December 2021, Australia has experienced a major outbreak of the Omicron variant, with significantly higher case numbers than at any other time of the pandemic. [82] As of 22 April 2022, Australia has reported 5,374,402 cases and 6,893 deaths. At the time of writing, there are an estimated 370,228 active cases in Australia. [83]
COVID-19 lockdown in Australia; COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales; COVID-19 pandemic in Queensland; COVID-19 pandemic in South Australia; COVID-19 pandemic in Tasmania; COVID-19 pandemic in the Australian Capital Territory; COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Territory; COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria; COVID-19 pandemic in Western Australia
On 29 February, after a Queensland case of an infected person returning to Australia from Iran, the government extended the enforced quarantine to people who had been in Iran, requiring them to spend a fortnight in a third country before being allowed into Australia. [13]
The same day, 98 COVID-19 deaths were reported in Australia, the highest number in a 24-hour period to that date, exceeding the high of 88 on 18 January. 39 were in Victoria, 35 in NSW, 18 in Queensland, 5 in South Australia and 1 in the ACT. [34] [46] By 23 February, Australia exceeded 5,000 deaths, [47] doubling since 13 January. [27]
Australia’s New South Wales state reported 16 deaths on Sunday in its deadliest day of the pandemic, even as it relaxed rules to allow some essential workers in isolation to return to work if ...
The country entered a general nationwide lockdown on 23 March 2020 during the first wave of the pandemic, [22] which was lifted on 15 May 2020. [ 23 ] The state of Victoria , particularly its capital city of Melbourne , the country's second most populous city with five million residents, entered an extended lockdown on 7 July 2020 in response ...