Masked commuters in the CBD pass by hoardings displaying photos of Sydney from around the time of the city’s last pandemic - the so-called Spanish Flu - more than 100 years ago. It is estimated that over 15,000 died from that virus and possibly as many as two million Australians were infected. The total population of Australia in 1918 was 5 million.
The current toll for the COVID-19 virus in Australia is 737 deaths and 26,136 infections.
Part of an ongoing series, ‘COVID-19 Diaries’.
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