Australia on track for horror flu season with more than 220 deaths

Over 200 Australians have died from the flu this year.

It has been a severe start to the flu season. Source: Getty

Australia may be on track for the worse flu season in years, with an early spike in the number of cases.

Almost 42,000 Australians were diagnosed with the virus last month while in June last year that number was under 2000.

And latest figures show that 228 people have already died this year from flu complications.

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