Blog Day 115: Friday 17 July 2020

Anybody taking bets on when Victoria goes to stage four lockdown?

The figures are getting progressively worse on a day to day basis. Of the 428 new infections in Victoria 57 are from known sources, 1 is an overseas traveller in quarantine and 370 are under investigation.  The majority are of these cases still appear to be as a result of the quarantine hotels mismanagement, either due to people being able to walk out without being tested or by the security guards (and I use the term loosely) becoming infected, by various means, and taking the infection home with them.

It is of concern that there has been new infections in three aged care or nursing home facilities.  These facilities are being evacuated with residents being relocated some of them in hospitals.  Most hospitals are introducing strict restrictions on visits to any patients, not just corona virus patients.  Effectively this mean that you won't be able to visit a patient in hospital except in the most extenuating circumstances and even then isolation rules will apply.

Three new deaths in the last 24 hours, a man and woman in their 80's and a man in his 70's.  Our Chief Health Officer has warned that given the increasing number of infections the hospitalisation rate and death rates will continue to increase.

No good news in the worldwide figures either, both infection rates and death rates still increasing.  Might be cancelling next year's overseas trip as well.  I was thinking Phillip Island is looking good and then I realised I can't even travel there at the moment.  

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Round Two Lockdown – Day 9

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
17/07	11,233	436	5,165	428	116	32	114	122	30	31
18/07
19/07

Corona 

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	13,946,637	255,011	592,677	5,856
18/07
19/07

This blog application is the most frustrating program I have ever used.  It doesn't matter how the formatting appears on the input page or the preview page it turns out to be something entirely different when published.  Blogger in particular doesn't like tables.

Remember to wash your hands, keep your distance, keep your mask on, sneeze into your elbow (yuk), don't touch your face, press the traffic light button with your foot and be kind.