Blog Day 114: Thursday 16 July 2020

In yesterday's blog I made mention of the "Young Ones".  One of my keen eyed but younger readers has queried this reference.  For the edification of all "The Young Ones" was a TV show from the early 1980's starring Rick Mayall and Adrian Edmondson amongst others.  The show was set in a share house in London occupied by four uni students.  It was somewhat anarchic and often very gross.  The episode that I was thinking of was one where all of the students in the house had very, very, very bad colds and they were using various household items to deal with the consequences.  I do recall one of the guys using his hamster as a handkerchief and the hamster had taken on a very green colour.  The series was very funny but I could never face lentils after watching it.

Bentleigh East's version of Checkpoint Charlie was in action again yesterday.  Around 4.00pm East Boundary Road heading southbound was blocked by the police and drivers were being checked, I daresay, to ensure that they were conforming to the current lockdown rules.

DD did state in his media conference this morning that there were no plans currently in place to move to stage 4 restrictions although he did caveat that by saying that this could change in the future.  It was also announced this morning that level 3 elective surgeries would be capped in both the public and private systems.

I have spent a lot of time getting the below tables set up properly.  Blogger still hasn't reinstated the table function so what I have to do is i) prepare the table in excel (which won't cut and paste into Blogger as we all know) ii) cut and paste the excel table into a Word table (which will cut and paste into the blog) and iii) cut and paste the Word table into the blog.  I hope that it is appreciated.

So. onto today's figures.  Victoria has reported 317 new infections for the last 24 hours, this is the highest daily figure recorded by any Australian state in the entire pandemic.  Victoria has reported 2 more deaths, apparently both males in their 80's.  As you can see below the hospitalisation and ICU numbers are also still increasing.  I see that in addition to the usual known clusters a new one has been reported today, there a six infections reported as being sourced from the CBD offices of the prestigious law firm HWL Ebsworth.  If any CBD firms are still working from their offices this might lead to a rethink.

Corona Virus Daily Stats - Round Two Lockdown - Day 10

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
07/07	8,755	199	2,824	191	106	22	34	31	5	5
08/07	8,880	142	2,942	134	106	22	39	35	10	9
09/07	9,056	179	3,098	165	106	22	46	41	8	7
10/07	9,374	304	3,397	288	106	22	45	47	10	12
11/07	9,556	227	3,560	216	107	23	54	49	13	15
12/07	9,797	243	3,799	273	108	24	55	57	16	16
13/07	9,980	192	3,967	177	108	24	67	72	17	17
14/07	10,250	283	4,224	270	108	24	105	81	27	26
15/07	10,501	251	4,462	238	111	27	90	105	27	27
16/07	10,807	332	4,750	317	113	29	111	109	28	29
18/07
19/07

The worldwide daily increase in infections is the highest since I have been recording the daily figures, so no discernable trend of the virus coming under control worldwide.  Daily worldwide death figures still hovering around the 5,000 mark, again no downward trend as yet.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – World Figures

Date	World Infections	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
07/07	11,756,373		541,085	4,309
08/07	11,949,281	192,908	546,601	5,516
09/07	12,170,565	221,284	552,112	5,511
10/07	12,390,734	220,169	557,416	5,304
11/07	12,625,155	234,421	562,769	5,353
12/07	12,843,910	218,755	567,653	4,884
13/07	13,036,550	192,640	571,574	3,921
14/07	13,235,751	199,201	575,525	3,951
15/07	13,454,490	218,739	581,118	5,593
16/07	13,691,626	237,136	586,821	5,703
17/07
18/07
19/07

I have managed to get most of the worldwide weekly stats into a table which hopefully is to my more critical readers' liking.  As we can see the large numbers of deaths being reported has moved from the core European countries to the Americas.  Brazil recorded the most deaths in the last week, with the USA still in second spot and Mexico not far behind.  Due to Australia recording 7 more deaths in the last week we have overtaken New Zealand in the number of deaths per million of population.  New Zealand had another week of no deaths and only 8 new infections which I am assuming are from returned overseas travellers.

Corona Virus International Stats as at 16/07/2020

Country	Population	Infected No	Deaths No	Deaths %	Deaths Increase No	Deaths Increase %	Deaths per Million Population
Belgium	11,500,000	62,872	9,788	0.08511	12	0	851
UK	68,000,000	291,911	45,053	0.06625	536	1	663
Spain	47,000,000	304,574	28,413	0.06045	17	0	605
Italy	60,000,000	243,506	34,997	0.05833	83	0	583
Sweden	10,000,000	76,492	5,572	0.05572	90	2	557
France	65,000,000	173,304	30,120	0.04634	155	1	463
USA	331,000,000	3,616,747	140,140	0.04234	5,278	4	423
Brazil	213,000,000	1,970,909	75,523	0.03546	7,468	11	355
Mexico	129,000,000	317,635	36,906	0.02861	4,110	13	286
Russia	146,000,000	746,369	11,770	0.00806	1,103	10	81
South Africa	59,000,000	311,049	4,453	0.00755	851	24	75
World	7,800,000,000	13,691,626	586,821	0.00752	34,709	6	75
India	1,300,000,000	970,169	24,929	0.00192	3,785	18	19
Aus	25,000,000	10,807	113	0.00045	7	7	5
New Zealand	5,000,000	1,548	22	0.00044	0	0	4

 Remember to wash your hands, keep your distance, keep your mask on, sneeze into your elbow (yuk) don't touch your face and be kind.