Australia’s Covid death rate has been among the lowest in the OECD during the pandemic – but not this week

More than half of the Covid deaths in Australia have occurred since March and the rate is increasing

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A winter Omicron wave has left Australia with one of the highest recent Covid death rates in the OECD, according to globally aggregated data.

Australia's seven day average of deaths per million residents (2.77) up to Wednesday currently only trails New Zealand (4.37) and Norway (3.15) among OECD countries, according to figures from Our World in Data.