PAEDS undertakes enhanced sentinel site surveillance, which captures a large proportion of admitted paediatric COVID-19 cases but may not capture all admitted cases. In combination with data upload lag and differences in testing and/or reporting practices between jurisdictions (e.g. RAT vs PCR notification), data presented here may vary from hospital admission numbers reported by jurisdictional health departments and the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. Data on this page will be updated monthly.

^* Data are updated on a monthly basis. PAEDS endeavours to maintain the most up-to-date data for diseases under surveillance.
^† An incidental COVID-19 admission is defined as an admission required for the management of a clinical condition where SARS-CoV-2 infection is considered to be incidental. Incidental COVID-19 admissions are excluded from this analysis.
^# Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status is self-identified. This figure shows the proportion of admissions where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status is known. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status was unknown for 0.9% of admissions.