In 2016, there were 273 confirmed Flu deaths.
In 2017, there were 1,181 confirmed Flu deaths.
In 2018, there were 148 confirmed Flu deaths.
In 2019, there were 902 confirmed Flu deaths.
In 2020, there were 36 confirmed Flu deaths.
Laboratory-confirmed influenza … Read the rest
Before COVID arrived in Australia, the number of Flu cases was averaging, over a 4 year period, between 3,500 and 50,000 cases each month.
Once the COVID-19 cases began to appear, the cases of Influenza reduced to around 2 or 3 hundred … Read the rest
The number of Flu (Influenza) cases in Australia, during 2020 has been substantially lower than in 2019. Probably due to the extra precautions (social distancing etc) taken to protect from the COVID-19 coronavirus.
An interesting observation is the numbers of deaths from … Read the rest
The Queensland Premier has announced that there has only been 5,918 cases of the Flu by 10th August this year, in Queensland. This compares to about 41,928, for the same period in 2019, according to figures from www.health.qld.gov.au/…/reports/flu
During this period Queensland has also had 1,091 … Read the rest
Between January to June 2020, there were just 36 deaths from the flu, from 21,000 diagnosed with the flu.
There was also 104 from the 7,836 reported COVID-19 coronavirus cases. A total of 140 deaths, from 28,836 combined infections, for the first six months of 2020.
For the same period … Read the rest
