Blog Day 104: Saturday 05 July 2020

Not much to report today, I think that we are all trying to grasp the magnitude of the shut down of the public housing towers.  

It is good to see that DD has got a bit of his mojo back and seems to be prepared to make these hard decisions.  I imagine the decision to shut down the towers would have been an extremely difficult one to make, although probably the right one.

Don't panic over the increase of 301 in the national figures.  This figure has been artificially inflated by the addition of some 200 infections of the Ruby Princess crew to Australia's national figures.  The relevant figures for new infections are Victoria 74 and NSW 14.

Victoria's new infections still include a large number classified as "under investigation".

I see that the worldwide daily death rate is running at between 4,000 to 5,000 per day and has been doing so for some time now.  It looks like Mexico is still in heaps of trouble with nearly 7,000 new infections and over 500 deaths in the last 24 hours. 

Back at work next week so no blog for a few days, and remember "be alert but not........ well be alert".

Corona Virus Daily Stats: Daily 181

Vic: 2,536 infected (+74 from yesterday) - deaths 20 (increase 0)
Aus: 8,443 infected (+301 from yesterday) deaths 104 (increase 0)
Aus: 7,319 recovered - current hospital 27 (+/-0), current ICU 7 (+/-0), current hospital Vic 23 (+/-0), current ICU Vic 6 (+/-0)
World: 11,382,890 infected - 533,473 deaths (increase 4,346 since yesterday).

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