COVID-19 nation's third biggest killer

By Andrew Brown and Mibenge Nsenduluka
Updated August 8 2022 - 6:43pm, first published 6:38pm
COVID-19 is expected to have claimed more lives than cardiovascular disease and lung cancer in 2022. (Luis Ascui/AAP PHOTOS)
COVID-19 is expected to have claimed more lives than cardiovascular disease and lung cancer in 2022. (Luis Ascui/AAP PHOTOS)

More Australians are expected to have died from COVID-19 so far this year than some of the country's traditionally largest killers, such as cardiovascular disease and lung cancer.

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