September 18, 2022
The State Government has updated the way it reports COVID-19 statistics, including case numbers and deaths.
Information relating to testing, the location, age and gender of cases has been removed and daily updating of statistics has been halted.
Weekly reports now simply note the number of deaths which have occurred during the past seven days, the number of new cases and the number of people in hospital.
The first report under this new system, released on Friday, showed there had been 71 deaths over the past week in Queensland, taking the State’s death toll since the pandemic began to 2092.
All but seven of these deaths have occurred during the Omicron wave which coincided with the opening of the State borders in December last year.
There were also 10,009 new cases officially reported.
A total of 183 people were being treated for COVID-19 in hospital, including nine in intensive care units.
The next weekly report by Queensland Health is due to be released on September 23.
NB. The seven-day data is for the seven days prior to midnight each Wednesday; the hospital data is at midnight each Wednesday.
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On September 11, Queensland Health statistics showed 136 people had died in the Darling Downs Health region since the pandemic began, up from 133 on September 1.
These last official daily statistics also showed 107,179 cases of COVID-19 had been detected in First Nations Queenslanders (up from 104,114 on September 1).
southburnett.com.au also recorded final totals released for local Council areas.
These statistics show the total number of confirmed positive cases per Local Government Area since January 2020 (not the number of current cases).
The first figure is the cumulative number of positive cases as at 7:00pm on September 11, while the second is for September 1. In brackets is the figure at December 13, 2021.
- South Burnett: 1736; 1722; (3)
- Cherbourg: 391; 372; (-)
- Toowoomba: 18,505; 18,439; (52)
- Gympie: 4152; 4133; (7)
- North Burnett: 717; 704; (3)
- Somerset: 1985; 1972; (6)
- Western Downs: 1737; 1727; (3)
NB. This data was reported by Queensland Health. When we took the first snapshot, Cherbourg LGA had not been added to the list by Qld Health as no cases had been recorded there. Numbers for all regions must also be considered underestimated. Not everyone who has tested positive using a Rapid Antigen Test has reported their result to Queensland Health. Also, the official statistics show 920,632 positive results (as at September 11) which have not been allocated to a Local Government Area.
