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Section sizes

Section size for COVID-19 pandemic in Australia (52 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	17,195	17,195
Background	4,762	4,762
Timeline	3,150	24,721
First wave: March–April 2020	1,058	1,058
Second wave: June–October 2020	3,027	3,027
Third wave: June 2021 – October 2021	8,811	8,811
Omicron wave: November 2021 – February 2022	3,278	3,278
2022	4,927	4,927
Post pandemic	470	470
Statistics	165	1,319
Clusters	1,154	1,154
Responses	8,814	92,973
Travel restrictions	524	32,972
2020	16,478	16,478
2021	14,973	14,973
2022	997	997
National Cabinet	5,413	5,413
Human biosecurity emergency declaration	13,647	13,647
National COVID-19 Commission Advisory Board	3,439	3,439
National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce	1,228	1,228
Vaccine supply	16,184	16,184
Vaccinations	3,465	11,276
Adverse reactions	1,457	1,457
Vaccine hesitancy and messaging	6,354	6,354
National Plan to transition Australia's National COVID-19 Response	158	18,931
Transition to endemic stage	7,310	7,310
Lifting measures	11,463	11,463
Post pandemic	1,197	1,197
Impacts	14	94,013
Arts	15,031	15,031
Economic	16,628	25,095
"Dine and Discover NSW"	4,089	4,089
2021	4,378	4,378
Employment	1,848	8,174
Agricultural worker shortage	6,326	6,326
Health	3,250	3,250
Indigenous Australians	10,810	10,810
Medication supply	4,966	4,966
Politics	3,768	3,768
Protests	2,804	2,804
Sport	19,437	19,437
Tourism	664	664
Travel restrictions	8,571	8,571
Geo-tracking app	1,632	1,632
Demand for investigation	3,494	3,494
Event cancellations	6,899	6,899
See also	677	1,129
State and territory articles	452	452
Notes	138	138
References	33	33
Further reading	1,061	1,061
External links	2,516	2,516
Total	280,584	280,584

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Cave, Damien (2022-05-15). "How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed a Million Americans". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-17.

Semi-protected edit request on 5 Sep 2021

Fatality rate is incorrectly measured after edit by User:Aeonx. Currently using recovered cases rather than confirmed cases to calculate percentage.

4 Semi-protected edit request on 17 December 2021

Number of deaths in total has not been updated in 4 months, it needs to be 2126 deaths