Australia's seven-day rolling common of COVID-19 instances is among the many highest on this planet - as a proportion of inhabitants - for the primary time throughout the course of the pandemic.
Knowledge collected by Johns Hopkins College, out there on the Our World In Knowledge website, exhibits how Australia's common ranks amongst a number of different developed, Western nations, together with the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, and Canada.
Australia's common is near 3400 instances per million folks - the second highest on the graph, behind solely France.
It is the primary time since January 28, 2020, that Australia has ranked so extremely - however the graph exhibits that the opposite international locations on it have additionally recorded latest, large spikes, underscoring the unfold of the extremely transmissible Omicron variant.
But it surely's not the total image.
Measuring Australia's demise and hospitalisation charges towards the identical international locations presents a obligatory stability, with our nation recording the bottom proportion of each.
The info exhibits that as a seven-day rolling common, Australia has recorded fewer than two deaths per million folks, and about 150 hospitalisations per million.
Given the US takes prime spot in each metrics (about 5 deaths and simply over 400 hospitalisations per million folks), this may probably be attributed to Australia's excessive charge of vaccination.
Canada and Australia prime the vaccination proportion listing among the many international locations measured, with the US languishing at a shade over 60 per cent.
This morning, infectious illness knowledgeable Professor Peter Collignon advised In the present day that the psychological paradigm shift of trusting within the vaccine's safety was nonetheless but to happen in Australia, with folks's reflexive wariness after two years of the pandemic very a lot dominant.
"Lots of us will get COVID over the subsequent 12 months or two," Professor Collignon stated.
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"We have to keep away from it, if we are able to. However the penalties now for severe illness, which is the important factor that issues, are so a lot lower than a 12 months in the past. We want to come back to phrases with that."
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