Australian COVID-19 Response Saves "thousands Of Lives": Health Minister
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published September 17, 2021 | 01:20 PM
CANBERRA, Sept. 17 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Sep, 2021 ) --:Australia's coronavirus response has saved tens of thousands of lives, the government has claimed.
According to data released by the Federal government, Australia has the second-lowest COVID-19 death rate in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with 0.75 deaths per 100,000 people.
By comparison, the death rate between Feb. 24 and Sept. 14 was 93 per 100,000 in the United States and 89.4 in Britain.
Only New Zealand bettered Australia among OECD members.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said that even amid the country's biggest wave of infections Australians have been protected from the worst of the pandemic.
"The fact that we have the second-lowest per capita levels of lives lost means that tens of thousands of lives were saved not just last year, but this year as well," he told Nine Entertainment newspapers.
"The focus on aged care, both workers and residents, has meant that there are dramatically different human outcomes from the Sydney outbreak this year as opposed to the Victorian outbreak last year."According to the Department of Health of the Australian government, as of Thursday there had been 1,128 COVID-19 deaths in Australia, 909 of which were in 2020.
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