Analysis of data from the federal Department of Health shows that there were 203,148 cases of COVID-19 in Australia between January 2020 and 25 November 2021. Some 2,132 people with the coronavirus died during this period, which equates to one death per 95 cases.
Meanwhile, a total of 1,463,254 people contracted the virus between 26 November and 31 January 2022, during the initial months of the Omicron wave. However, although 1,438 people died with the virus over this period, the death rate was just one per 1,018 cases.
The data also excludes the likely hundreds of thousands of COVID cases that have not been officially reported over summer, due to difficulties accessing rapid antigen tests, delays processing PCR tests, and large numbers of extremely mild or asymptomatic infections.
