Coronavirus (COVID-19) at a glance – 21 January 2022

As at 3pm on 21 January 2022, a total of 1,590,013 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 2,989 deaths, and approximately 492,605 active cases. 

• Over the past week, there have been an average of 47,019 new cases reported each day.
• COVID-19 cases were reported across all ages:
  • The median age of all cases is 30 years (range: 0 to 106 years).
  • The median age of deaths is 82 years (range: 5 to 106 years).
• There is a relatively equal ratio of male-to-female cases across most age groups.
• In 2020 case numbers reached an initial peak at the end of March. This was followed by a period of low case numbers. In mid-June 2020 case numbers started to increase before reaching a secondary peak in early August 2020. Case numbers gradually declined and remained low with spikes occurring in mid-late December 2020 and mid-late April 2021. From late June 2021, case numbers increased and peaked from late September to mid-October 2021. From mid-December 2021 case numbers started to increase again.
• Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 25% were locally acquired.
• To date, more than 59,732,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted, 2.7% have been positive.
• The ‘cases in aged care services’ table presents the number of cases that have been reported among care recipients in Australian Government-subsidised residential and in-home care settings in each state and territory.