Introduction It has been twenty months since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a pandemic on 11 March 2020 (WHO, 2020). Since that time COVID-19 has continued to spread with multiple threats to lives, livelihoods and communities. The number of people who have contracted the disease has continued to rise in Australia and overseas. The table and diagrams below provide a comparison of these numbers between September 2020 and November 2021.
Location
Overseas Locally Active acquired acquired cases November 25 2021
Total Recovered
Cairns and Hinterland QLD NSW VIC ACT Australia Worldwide
39
13
0
74
1,541 3,728 1,236 98 8,594
537 76,822 69,925 1,997 149,897
3 2,667 10,276 177 13,190 19,824,289
2,102 77,697 105,344 1,904 190,460 235,256,250
Total Active cases September 25 2020
Total Cases November 25 2021
Total deaths
NA
74
0
1,153 4,217 20,118 113 27,000 31,195.050
2,117 80,681 116,189 2,095 203,650 260,311,551
7 625 1,313 14 1,978 5,199,480
Source: Australian Government, NSW Government, Qld Government, Vic Government, QLD Government, Worldmeter Table 1: COVID-19 Case Numbers as at 25 November, 2021.
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