ABS knowledge exhibits dying from COVID spiked earlier this yr — however so did deaths from different situations, making for a fairly tragic eight months.
Australia has seen terribly excessive dying charges this yr, and COVID-19 is not the only real trigger, knowledge launched by the Australian Bureau of Statistics exhibits.
Greater than 4400 folks died from COVID between January to Might, most throughout the dramatic spike in infections and deaths that started within the new yr and peaked on January 23. Numbers of COVID deaths returned solely briefly to 2021 ranges in March earlier than taking off once more as policymakers and the general public collectively determined that the pandemic was over.
Within the week after the federal election, COVID deaths returned to 200 per week.
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