On Australia’s deadliest day of Covid pandemic, experts say we don’t know enough about who is dying

Doctors say Australia must coordinate Covid-19 data nationally and pick up the game on testing, tracing, isolating and quarantining

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Today is the deadliest day in Australia's Covid pandemic. So far this year, about 30 Australians a day are dying with Covid.

[These are] someone's parents, grandparents, community leaders, people who contribute to our society," the Burnet Institute director and chief executive officer, Prof Brendan Crabb, says.

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