Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
T14 |
0-75 |
Sentence |
denotes |
As of 1 May 2020, there were 6808 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. |
T15 |
76-115 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Of these, 98 had died from the disease. |
T16 |
116-314 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Encouragingly, the daily count of new confirmed cases had been declining since late March 2020, with 308 cases reported nationally since 14 April (Australian Government Department of Health, 2020a). |
T17 |
315-576 |
Sentence |
denotes |
This suggests that Australia has (to date) avoided a “worst-case” scenario — one where planning models estimated a peak daily demand for 35,000 ICU beds by around May 2020, far exceeding the health system’s capacity of around 2,200 ICU beds (Moss et al., 2020). |