What was thought to be a 'significant' COVID-19 milestone wasn't at all

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It appeared as though Australia had a week without any COVID-19-associated deaths. But new data shows that wasn't the case.

Hopes Australia had reached a "significant" pandemic milestone have been dashed after new data revealed there were

pandemic was declared — released on Thursday showed the rolling seven-day average of deaths fell to zero on 29 February this year. It jumped back up to one on 3 March, before returning to zero two days later. But new data published on Friday showed the average was six deaths on 29 February, and five on 3 March. It highlights that there have been waves of

posed to the Australian population had fallen, but warned against complacency. And Sanjaya Senanayake, an associate professor and specialist in infectious diseases at the Australian National University, said the result was "great news, but not unexpected". But not all experts were convinced. James Wood, an associate professor and infectious disease modeller at the University of NSW, said the data was encouraging but did not believe it was accurate.

 

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