Australia’s latest COVID-19 wave is fading, but with successive omicron outbreaks now leaving the nation with higher fatality rates than its peers.
The latest omicron wave has peaked at about two-thirds of last year’s winter wave, with all jurisdictions now reporting significant falls in hospitalisation and acute ICU cases.
Australia finished the year with a cumulative COVID-19 mortality rate of 560 deaths per million across the year, based on surveillance data reported by health agencies.This was more than 3½ times Singapore , a country that Australian health authorities have benchmarked against, according toJapan , New Zealand , Canada , the United Kingdom and South Korea all recorded lower per capita cumulative COVID-19 mortality rates for 2022 than Australia.
Within Australia similar data inconsistency problems also exists, with NSW now only reporting registered deaths, which means its COVID-19 fatality numbers lag other states by up to two months.Advertisement Hospitalisation rates peaked just before the new year with 3564 admissions and have since fallen to 2587 admissions for the week ending January 17. This compares with a peak of 5361 in July’s winter wave, the peak of the year.“Queensland’s fourth COVID wave is officially over, with our COVID status going back down to green,” Deputy Premier Stephen Miles said.Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton was also optimistic the worst had passed.
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