{"id":252752,"date":"2025-10-31T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252752\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:02:09","slug":"flu-deaths-surpass-covid-19-for-the-first-time-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252752\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu deaths surpass COVID-19 for the first time in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More people died from influenza than COVID-19 in a month for the first time since the height of the pandemic, according to national figures.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2025, 265 people died from or with influenza compared with 195 deaths associated with COVID-19, show Australian Bureau of Statistics figures, released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first month that influenza was more deadly than COVID-19 since February 2020, before anyone in Australia had died from SARS-CoV-2 in the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Between January and August 2025, deaths involving COVID-19 were lower than the previous two years, whereas deaths involving influenza and respiratory syncytial virus were higher, the figures showed.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More people died from influenza than COVID-19 in a month for the first time since the height of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,7273,137,2166,89933,44,4086],"class_list":["post-252752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coronavirus","tag-health","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-influenza-flu","tag-news","tag-respiratory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}