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The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia was a part of the worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first confirmed case in Australia was identified on 25 January 2020, in Victoria , when a man who had returned from Wuhan , Hubei Province, China , tested positive ...
On 30 April 2020, the ACT declared itself to be free of all known cases of COVID-19, the first Australian jurisdiction. [87] However, on 4 May there was a one new case, a young woman who acquired the virus overseas. [88] On 10 May, the ACT was again free of active COVID-19 cases.
As of 12 October 2021, there were 26,448 estimated active cases of COVID-19 in Australia. A case is considered active if a person who was COVID-19 positive but has yet to be classified as recovered and has not died. The chart below tracks active cases since 5 April 2020, when the Federal Government began reporting nationwide recovery data.
By 30 June, the ' Bondi cluster ' of delta variant COVID-19 reached 160 cases, which began on 19 June 2021, became Sydney's largest cluster to this date. The previous high was 151 in the 'Northern Beaches' or ' Avalon cluster ', in December 2020–January 2021.
Australia's first human trials of a candidate COVID-19 vaccine was Novavax's NVX-CoV2373 which began in Melbourne by 26 May 2020. [137] In a February 2021 pre-budget submission, the Australian Academy of Science renewed its call for the government to develop the capability to produce mRNA vaccine technology in Australia.
Coronavirus Australia was an app released by the Australian Government designed to allow users to access information about the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. The app was released by the Department of Health on 29 March 2020, [3] and decommissioned two years later on 31 August 2022. [4]
Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia may refer to: Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia (2020) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia (January–June 2021) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia (July–December 2021)
In mid-June, sniffer dogs were deployed on a trial basis at Adelaide Airport to detect people with COVID-19 infections. [15] Due to a growing cluster in Bondi, Sydney, on 23 June South Australia "immediately" reinstated a hard border with NSW. No one who had been in NSW in the past 14 days was allowed entry to SA.