CORONAVIRUS — LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH STATISTICS
594. Hon SOPHIA MOERMOND to the minister representing the
Minister for Health:
I refer to the Australian Bureau of
Statistics report on leading causes of death in Australia. What international
classification of diseases code is being applied to deaths associated with SARS
and COVID-19?
Hon
STEPHEN DAWSON replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question. The following answer has been provided to me by
the Minister for Health.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics
report on leading causes of death in Australia is compiled using cause-of-death
data supplied from Births, Deaths and Marriages registers within each state.
The ABS report does not contain any data from the Western Australian Department
of Health.
The following ICD-10 codes may be
applied to deaths associated with COVID and SARS: U07.1, COVID-19, virus
identified; U07.2, COVID-19, virus not identified; U09.9, post-COVID-19
condition; U10.9, multisystem inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19;
and U04.9, severe acute respiratory syndrome.