Australia has seen its lowest rate of COVID-19 deaths in two years

Australia has recorded its lowest COVID death rate in over two years, with zero fatalities on February 29-March 2, and one documented death, according to federal health department data.

According to federal health department data extending back to January 2022, Australia has seen its lowest COVID death rate in over two years. According to the most recent statistics available on the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, the seven-day rolling average of COVID fatalities was zero on Thursday, February 29 and Saturday, March 2, as well as on March 5 and 6. On March 3, there was one documented death. The average, which is determined by dividing the total number of fatalities during the preceding seven days by seven and rounding to the nearest whole number, is used to show short-term trends. A rolling average of zero is achieved for up to three fatalities in a seven-day period.

However, the data indicates that hospitalizations and deaths due to the coronavirus are low. The Australian National University's Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanayake, a specialist in infectious diseases, reported that a lower incidence of severe disease was caused by both vaccination-induced immunity and immunity from infection with Omicron subvariants.

Prof. Adrian Esterman, the chair of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of South Australia, stated that while Australia has been in the greatest position possible with regard to COVID-19 for some years, it is still not the time to become comfortable. According to the most recent data available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 21,827 of the 687,639 death registrations between March 2020 and January 2024 were related to or resulted from COVID-19.