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**Australian Covid-19 Report for 08 February 2022** 

- Total number of COVID-19 cases - of 2,409,247 
- Total number of deaths 4,303 
- Active cases 277,360

>Over the past week, there have been an average of 30,337 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 increased sharply and peaked in January 2022.
Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 21% were locally acquired.
To date, more than 61,854,500 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted, 3.9% 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.

https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-at-a-glance-8-february-2022