Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

More than $18.5 billion has been committed to supporting the emergency COVID-19 health response to the pandemic. When we look, though, at the situation here in Australia compared to that of other nations, we are performing remarkably well. Just in terms of a global update, there have been over 63 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally and over 1.4 million deaths in total. In Australia, we've had 27,923 confirmed cases and, sadly, 908 deaths. Whilst we can never be complacent, the systems we have in place have resulted in lower loss of life, lower transmission rates and lower economic impacts than in most other countries.