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

A paramedic outside St Vincent's hospital, Melbourne. Many conditions can raise the risk of dying from Covid but not being vaccinated is the greatest risk. Photograph: Luis Ascui/AAP

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.