As of November 25, 2022 the number of COVID-19 cases in the Australian state of Victoria was at 40,482 people per 100,000 of the population. Since mid-2021, uncontained outbreaks in NSW and Victoria caused the government to move away from its former 'Covid zero' approach.

The economic impact of lockdown measures

In March of 2020, one survey showed that over 70 percent of Australians expected the economic outlook in Australia to get worse in the next three months. For most industries this prediction was correct, with the worst hit industries being hospitality, tourism, and gyms and fitness. However, some businesses flourished under the shift in pandemic consumer behavior with food delivery services, homewares and online gambling showing significant increases in consumption.

On September 30, 2020, there were 17 new reported confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. Australia's daily new confirmed coronavirus cases peaked on July 30 with 746 new cases on that day. This was considered to be the second wave of coronavirus infections in Australia, with the first wave peaking at the end of March at 460 cases before dropping to less than 20 cases per day throughout May and most of June.

 A second wave

Australia’s second wave of coronavirus found its epicenter in Melbourne, after over a month of recording low numbers of national daily cases. Despite being primarily focused within a single state, clusters of coronavirus cases in Victoria soon pushed the daily number of recorded cases over that of the first wave, with well over double the number of deaths. As a result, the Victorian Government once again increased lockdown measures to limit movement and social interaction. At the same time the other states and territories closed or restricted movement across borders, with some of the strictest border closures taking place in Western Australian.

 Is Australia entering into a recession?

After narrowly avoiding a recession during the global financial crisis, by September 2020 Australia had recorded two consecutive quarters of economic decline, hailing the country’s first recession since 1991. This did not necessarily come as a surprise for many Australians who had already witnessed a rising unemployment rate throughout the second quarter of 2020 alongside ongoing restrictions on retail and hospitality trading. However, thanks to welfare initiatives like JobKeeper and a government stimulus payment supplementing many household incomes, the economic situation could have been much worse at this point.

Australia recorded 11299954 Coronavirus Cases since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Australia reported 20553 Coronavirus Deaths. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Australia Coronavirus Cases.

From 20 October 2023, COVID-19 datasets will no longer be updated. Detailed information is available in the fortnightly NSW Respiratory Surveillance Report: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/reports.aspx.
Latest national COVID-19 spread, vaccination and treatment metrics are available on the Australian Government Health website: https://www.health.gov.au/topics/covid-19/reporting?language=und

COVID-19 cases by notification date and postcode, local health district, and local government area. The dataset is updated weekly on Fridays.

The data is for confirmed COVID-19 cases only based on location of usual residence, not necessarily where the virus was contracted.

Case counts reported by NSW Health for a particular notification date may vary over time due to ongoing investigations and the outcome of cases under review thus this dataset and any historical data contained within is subject to change on a daily basis.

The underlying dataset was assessed to measure the risk of identifying an individual and the level of sensitivity of the information gained if it was known that an individual was in the dataset. The dataset was then treated to mitigate these risks, including suppressing and aggregating data.

This dataset does not include cases with missing location information.

This dataset provides values for CORONAVIRUS CASES reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Context

NSW has been hit by the Omicron variant, with skyrocketing cases. This dataset, updated regularly, details the location of positive cases. A prediction of where the most cases could occur can be derived from this dataset and a potential prediction of how many cases there is likely to be.

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notification_date: Text, dates to when the positive case was notified of a positive test result. postcode: Text, lists the postcode of the positive case. lhd_2010_code: Text, the code of the local health district of the positive case. lhd_2010_name: Text, the name of the local health district of the positive case. lga_code19: Text, the code of the local government area of the positive case. lga_name19: Text, the name of the local government area of the positive case.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to NSW Health for providing and updating the dataset.

Inspiration

The location of cases is highly important in NSW. In mid-2021, Western Sydney had the highest proportion of COVID-19 cases with many deaths ensuing. Western Sydney is one of Sydney's most diverse areas, with many vulnerable peoples. The virus spread to western NSW, imposing a risk to the Indigenous communities. With location data, a prediction service can be made to forecast the areas at risk of transmission.

New Covid cases per month in Australia, March, 2023 The most recent value is 62830 new Covid cases as of March 2023, a decline compared to the previous value of 70882 new Covid cases. Historically, the average for Australia from February 2020 to March 2023 is 302182 new Covid cases. The minimum of 16 new Covid cases was recorded in February 2020, while the maximum of 1789613 new Covid cases was reached in January 2022. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

As of September 5, 2022, the number of male 20 to 29 year olds diagnosed with COVID-19 in Australia had reached around 23,164 cases per 100,000 people. At the time, people 70-79 years of age had the lowest share of confirmed cases across males and females.

As at January 31, 2022 there had been a total of 2,580,386 COVID-19 cases confirmed in Australia. After maintaining a 'COVID zero' infection control policy from the beginning of the outbreak and much of 2021, subsequent outbreaks in the second half of 2021 saw the Australian government shift its policy away from trying to eradicate domestic cases of COVID-19 to a staged reopening of state and international boarders with infection control measures.

Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 210 countries relative to their population, Peru had the most losses to COVID-19 up until July 13, 2022. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 557.8 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 6.3 million. Note, however, that COVID-19 test rates can vary per country. Additionally, big differences show up between countries when combining the number of deaths against confirmed COVID-19 cases. The source seemingly does not differentiate between "the Wuhan strain" (2019-nCOV) of COVID-19, "the Kent mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020, the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India or the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) from South Africa.

The difficulties of death figures

This table aims to provide a complete picture on the topic, but it very much relies on data that has become more difficult to compare. As the coronavirus pandemic developed across the world, countries already used different methods to count fatalities, and they sometimes changed them during the course of the pandemic. On April 16, for example, the Chinese city of Wuhan added a 50 percent increase in their death figures to account for community deaths. These deaths occurred outside of hospitals and went unaccounted for so far. The state of New York did something similar two days before, revising their figures with 3,700 new deaths as they started to include “assumed” coronavirus victims. The United Kingdom started counting deaths in care homes and private households on April 29, adjusting their number with about 5,000 new deaths (which were corrected lowered again by the same amount on August 18). This makes an already difficult comparison even more difficult. Belgium, for example, counts suspected coronavirus deaths in their figures, whereas other countries have not done that (yet). This means two things. First, it could have a big impact on both current as well as future figures. On April 16 already, UK health experts stated that if their numbers were corrected for community deaths like in Wuhan, the UK number would change from 205 to “above 300”. This is exactly what happened two weeks later. Second, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly which countries already have “revised” numbers (like Belgium, Wuhan or New York) and which ones do not. One work-around could be to look at (freely accessible) timelines that track the reported daily increase of deaths in certain countries. Several of these are available on our platform, such as for Belgium, Italy and Sweden. A sudden large increase might be an indicator that the domestic sources changed their methodology.

Where are these numbers coming from?

The numbers shown here were collected by Johns Hopkins University, a source that manually checks the data with domestic health authorities. For the majority of countries, this is from national authorities. In some cases, like China, the United States, Canada or Australia, city reports or other various state authorities were consulted. In this statistic, these separately reported numbers were put together. For more information or other freely accessible content, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

From 20 October 2023, COVID-19 datasets will no longer be updated. Detailed information is available in the fortnightly NSW Respiratory Surveillance Report: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/reports.aspx.
Latest national COVID-19 spread, vaccination and treatment metrics are available on the Australian Government Health website: https://www.health.gov.au/topics/covid-19/reporting?language=und

COVID-19 cases by notification date and age range. Data is available from 29th of June 2021.

The data is for confirmed COVID-19 cases only based on location of usual residence, not necessarily where the virus was contracted.

The underlying dataset was assessed to measure the risk of identifying an individual and the level of sensitivity of the information gained if it was known that an individual was in the dataset. Age ranges have been combined to minimise these risks.

From 20 October 2023, COVID-19 datasets will no longer be updated. Detailed information is available in the fortnightly NSW Respiratory Surveillance Report: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/reports.aspx. Latest national COVID-19 spread, vaccination and treatment metrics are available on the Australian Government Health website: https://www.health.gov.au/topics/covid-19/reporting?language=und

COVID-19 cases by notification date and postcode, local health district, local government area and likely source of infection.

This dataset has been discontinued from 19 November 2021. NSW Health now reports daily COVID-19 cases as a total of local and overseas cases. With quarantine-free international travel, overseas origin of cases can no longer be determined immediately, but will be included in the COVID-19 weekly surveillance reports. The NSW COVID-19 cases by location dataset will continue to be published.

The data is for confirmed COVID-19 cases only based on location of usual residence, not necessarily where the virus was contracted. The case definition of a confirmed case is a person who tests positive to a validated specific SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid test or has the virus identified by electron microscopy or viral culture, at a reference laboratory. Data reported at 8pm daily.

Case counts reported by NSW Health for a particular notification date may vary over time due to ongoing investigations and the outcome of cases under review thus this dataset and any historical data contained within is subject to change on a daily basis.

The underlying dataset was assessed to measure the risk of identifying an individual and the level of sensitivity of the information gained if it was known that an individual was in the dataset. The dataset was then treated to mitigate these risks, including suppressing and aggregating data.

On December 1, 2021, there were 32,945 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in Australia. After two major outbreaks of the coronavirus in 2020, Australia had managed to maintain a very low number of coronavirus infections with a policy of strict boarder restrictions and hotel quarantine for interstate and international visitors. However, a steep rise in cases from uncontained outbreaks in June 2021 onwards forced the government to reevaluate the county's 'COVID zero' policy.

Using the r-vest package from https://covidlive.com.au/, the data set is scraped. Only the selected variables are chosen, and the webpage is scraped. The dataset includes information on COVID cases from NSW, WA, and VIC, three Australian states. The following variables were included in this dataset:- - Date: Date from 2020-01-25 to 2022-06-25 - NEW: New Cases per day - State: VIC, WA, and NSW -DOSES: Total doses administered - NET_DOSES: New dose that was Administered in that day - Hospitalised: Cases Admitted to Hospital - Active: Daily Active Cases -Population: Population in a particular state

For further details please refer to www.covidlive.com.au

In past 24 hours, Australia, Australia-Oceania had 664 new cases, N/A deaths and 4,299 recoveries.

Context

This dataset is derived from the list of cases that is published at:

https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/all-victorian-sars-cov-2-cases-by-local-government-area-postcode-and-acquired-source

It is joined with the following two sources to get postcode and population data.

https://datapacks.censusdata.abs.gov.au/datapacks/ https://www.matthewproctor.com/australian_postcodes

Content

The dataset is expanded to include 0 days for every suburb (hence the size). I have attempted to replicate some relevant statistics, such as estimated replication number using formulas found here:

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/20-112_4278525d-ccf2-4f8a-b564-2e95d0e7ca5b.pdf

Acknowledgements

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Inspiration

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On March 10, 2023, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center ceased collecting and reporting of global COVID-19 data. For updated cases, deaths, and vaccine data please visit the following sources:Global: World Health Organization (WHO)U.S.: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)For more information, visit the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.This feature layer contains the most up-to-date COVID-19 cases and the latest trend plot. It covers the US (county or state level), China, Canada, Australia (province/state level), and the rest of the world (country/region level, represented by either the country centroids or their capitals). Data sources are WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC, DXY, 1point3acres, Worldometers.info, BNO, the COVID Tracking Project (testing and hospitalizations), state and national government health departments, and local media reports. This layer is created and maintained by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at the Johns Hopkins University. This feature layer is supported by Esri Living Atlas team, JHU APL and JHU Data Services. This layer is opened to the public and free to share. Contact us.

Australia’s first coronavirus case was discovered on ****************. The infected person was a man from the coronavirus epicenter, Wuhan, who had flown into Melbourne on the **** of January. Although some of the first infections in Australia can be attributed to travelers from China, by ********, infections attributed to people who had visited the United States and Italy had overtaken China.

Travel restrictions

With the rate of infection in China climbing steadily in early *************, the Australian government began to implement measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. These measures involved social distancing and broad travel restrictions, including the closing of boarders to all foreign nationals arriving from China on **********. Overall, the number of travelers moving through airports across Australia had already begun to drop noticeably and Chinese students were one of the largest groups to be affected. By March, well after the 2020 school year had begun, over ** percent of Chinese university students with visas to study in Australia had not entered the country. This also added to economic concerns, with Chinese students representing just over ** billion Australian dollars in education export income in 2019.

Cruise ships

During the COVID-19 pandemic a number of cruise ships were hit by the virus, which spread amongst passengers and staff in the closed environments. The Diamond Princess, which was quarantined in Yokohama, Japan, had around *** Australians on board, of which at least a quarter contracted the coronavirus. The Ruby Princess was another cruise ship attributed to the spread of COVID-19 within Australia. On **************, the ship docked in Sydney harbor and ***** passengers disembarked. By ******** it was confirmed that *** passengers had contracted COVID-19 on the Ruby Princess.

A line list of Queensland's COVID-19 cases by date of individual's notification of COVID-19 detection, location of usual residence (Postcode, Local Government Area and SA2) as well as the individual's source of COVID-19 infection.

Please note that location variables are masked as null in instances when a case does not usually reside in Queensland. Furthermore, SA2 has not been generated on pathology tests prior to the June 2021 update of the Queensland's Notifiable Conditions System.

As at March 2023, the dataset incorporated the Queensland Public RAT Portal. Although this data has not been appropriately validated by Queensland pathology laboratories, the results were re-evaluated from within the Notifiable Conditions System (NoCS) and hence, any duplicates or other multiple entries for the same re-infection period have been appropriately integrated.

The data presented in the Data Explorer tab below is a representative sample of the complete data set. To view the complete data set, select the Download(CSV) icon or the Data API icon above.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Ben Rodanski

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