Coronavirus (COVID-19) at a glance – 30 August 2020

As at 3pm on 30 August 2020, a total of 25,670 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 611 deaths, and 21,111 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19. 

• Over the past week, there has been an average of 125 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
• COVID-19 cases were reported across all ages.
  • The median age of all cases is 37 years (range: 0 to 106 years).
  • The median age of deaths is 86 years (range: 30 to 103 years).
• There is a relatively equal ratio of male-to-female cases across most age groups.
• Following the peak of cases at the end of March, there have been a relatively low number of new cases reported daily between mid-April and early-June 2020. Cases have increased since mid-June. Since mid-August 2020, the number of newly reported cases has begun to decrease, but high numbers of cases continue to be reported.
• Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 80% were locally acquired.
• The overall proportion of cases under investigation in each state and territory is relatively low, indicating that public health actions, including case identification and contact tracing, is occurring in a timely manner.
• To date, over 6,168,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.4% 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.

 View the latest information on our current situation and case numbers page.