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Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Monitoring and reporting on COVID-19

We monitor and report on COVID-19 spread, vaccination and treatment. See the latest statistics for vaccination, treatments, case notifications, impact on hospitals, impact on residential aged care homes, and associated deaths.

COVID-19 vaccinations

  • To find the latest COVID-19 vaccination statistics, please see the COVID-19 vaccination rollout update.
  • In the last six months, over 900 thousand doses have been administered to people aged 18 years and over.
  • In the last 12 months, approximately 2.5 million doses have been administered to people aged 18 years and over.
  • Since 01 January 2023, over 8.4 million doses have been administered to people aged 18 years and over.

COVID-19 daily booster doses administered by 18+ age group (since 1 January 2023)

Source: Australian Immunisation Register as at 09 April 2025.

COVID-19 treatments

  • COVID-19 oral antiviral treatments nirmatrelvir and ritonavir (Paxlovid) and molnupiravir (Lagevrio) are available through the PBS for eligible patients.
  • Commencing 11 July 2022, the PBS eligibility criteria for COVID-19 oral antiviral treatments Paxlovid and Lagevrio has been expanded.
  • Please note that individual script counts may not add to the total script count. The monthly numbers relate to the date of supply (dispensing) of the medicine. The state relates to the location of the dispensing pharmacy. Figures may change due to claiming activity by pharmacies.
  • Updated eligibility for oral COVID-19 treatment is available on the COVID 19 treatment eligibility page.

Total monthly PBS scripts for oral COVID-19 treatment, by jurisdiction

Total monthly PBS scripts for oral COVID-19 treatment, by age groups

Source: PBS; included Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) & Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS) patients, for month ending 31 March 2025, extracted on 10 April 2025.

COVID-19 case notifications

COVID-19 impact on hospitals

  • A number of jurisdictions no longer report COVID-19 hospitalisations to the NNDSS: NSW ceased on 05/03/2024, the ACT on 23/03/2024, Tasmania on 12/04/2024 and Victoria on 30/06/2024. As a result, national data are not considered representative and are not reported here. 
  • More information on COVID-19 associated hospitalisations and intensive care admissions can be found in the Australian Respiratory Surveillance Reports.

COVID-19 cases in ICU, Australia, 01 Jan 2022 to 08 Apr 2025

Source: Critical Health Resources Information System (CHRIS), as at 09 Apr 2025

Note: due to technical issues, data on COVID-19 cases in ICU from NSW may be incomplete from December 2024. For this reason, recent trends in COVID-19 cases in ICU should be interpreted with caution. 

COVID-19 impact on residential aged care homes

Daily COVID-19 active outbreaks in aged care homes, 15 Dec 2021 to 09 Apr 2025

Resident cases in aged care homes, 01 Jan 2022 to 09 Apr 2025

Staff cases in aged care homes, 01 Jan 2022 to 09 Apr 2025

Source: My Aged Care Provider Portal, as at 10 Apr 2025

COVID-19 associated deaths

The department is now using the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Provisional Mortality Statistics for reporting of COVID-19 associated deaths. The ABS mortality data is sourced from the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. The data are nationally representative, and can be differentiated by deaths due to COVID-19 and deaths with COVID-19 infection. 

Please view the Provisional Mortality Statistics, and more information on mortality statistics in Australia at Australian Bureau of Statistics – Causes of death.

COVID-19 deaths among people on NDIS and Disability Support Pension

This table shows the number of COVID-19 associated deaths registered in Australia for National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants and Disability Support Pension (DSP) recipients since March 2020. 

‘COVID-19 associated deaths’ are the total deaths both due to COVID-19 and with COVID-19. 

Source: The Department of Health and Aged Care’s COVID-19 linked research environment in the Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA) (Provisional Mortality data linked to NDIS and DSP programs).

Cumulative count of COVID-19 associated deaths

Disability groupsParticipant deaths to 31 January 2025 
People on NDIS (including those receiving DSP)613
DSP-only recipients1,136
Total1,749

Note: Data may be incomplete due to a lag in death registrations.

NDIS population as at 30 June 2024. 
DSP population as at 30 June 2024. 
Data is confidentialised to protect the privacy of individuals.

This series of reporting based on data matched with the PLIDA dataset commenced 1 June 2023, replacing previous reporting which set out COVID cases and deaths among NDIS recipients reported to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.

Australian Respiratory Surveillance Reports

The Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report is now available. The Australian Respiratory Surveillance Reports are used to monitor the: 

  • distribution of acute respiratory illness activity in the community
  • severity of infections
  • populations which might be at-risk for severe infections
  • impact of acute respiratory illness activity on the community and health system in Australia.

For historical information on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surveillance in Australia, see the COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Reports.

State and territory reporting

For more information please contact the relevant jurisdiction's health department. You can also request data from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). Requests for NNDSS data may require agreement from states and territories.

Technical notes

  • The 2023 COVID-19 Booster program formally commenced on 20 February 2023, in accordance with policy advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI). The COVID-19 2023 Booster doses is a count of the number of vaccine doses administered to individuals aged 18 years and over who have received their third or higher dose in sequence in 2023. 
  • Australian COVID-19 Aged Care Incident Response System (AUS CAIRS) data is sourced via case managers through facility self-reporting into the My Aged Care Portal. Data presented on this page is the number of positive cases associated with current outbreaks and may differ from historical reports due to lags in uploading to the system. Non-residential establishments such as Multipurpose Services and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care are included in active outbreak data.
  • Cumulative count of COVID-19 associated deaths for people with disability includes all individuals registered on the NDIS and/or DSP at the time of their death (or who exited within 4 weeks prior to death).
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