After years of fear and lockdowns, 2024 could mark the end of Covid’s long hold over Australia.
Data from the Department of Health and Aged care shows a clear and steady decline in Covid associated deaths in the first four months of the year, with seven-day rolling averages slipping from about 10 in early January to below five by early April.
Since early March, the number of average deaths has stayed consistently below 5, the lowest number since the outbreak of the respiratory virus in March 2020.
The data, which comes from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, records deaths linked to the virus, but notes that factors such as other diseases of chronic conditions may also have contributed to or caused deaths associated with Covid.
The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Covid mortality, released i...
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