A low burden of severe illness: the COVID-19 Omicron outbreak in the remote Torres and Cape region of Far North Queensland

• Published in: Communicable Diseases Intelligence
• Main Authors: Taunton, Caroline, Hawthorn, Leanne, Matysek, Rittia, Coates, Marlow, Pickering, Emma, Neville, Johanna, Hanson, Josh, Smith, Simon, Hempenstall, Allison
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care 2023
• Subjects: 4203 Health Services and Systems; 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; 3202 Clinical Sciences; 42 Health Sciences; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Coronaviruses; Infectious Diseases; Clinical Research; 3 Good Health and Well Being; Humans; Australia; Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples; COVID-19; COVID-19 Vaccines; Disease Outbreaks; Queensland; Cost of Illness; Torres Strait Islands; Cape York; First Nations; Omicron; SARS-CoV-2; anzsrc-for: 4203 Health Services and Systems; anzsrc-for: 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; anzsrc-for: 3202 Clinical Sciences; anzsrc-for: 42 Health Sciences; anzsrc-for: 1103 Clinical Sciences; anzsrc-for: 1117 Public Health and Health Services; anzsrc-for: 4202 Epidemiology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_84315; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/b6bce517-79d7-48a3-abc7-e9bd50849c14/download; https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2023.47.41

A coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was declared in the remote Torres and Cape region of Far North Queensland soon after the Queensland border opened for quarantine-free domestic travel in December 2021, with a total of 7,784 cases notified during the first ten-month outbreak period. We r...