Blog Day 119 - Tuesday 21 July 2020

Tuesday is Shrine volunteer Zoom meeting day.  This morning, apart from some general chit chat amongst the volunteers and Shrine staff we reviewed and discussed the first episode of the SBS series Das Boot.  This is a made for television series based on the book and movie of the same name.  Next week we are discussing the Australian movie "The Lighthorsemen".  I don't think that I have seen the movie so I will have to watch it this week so I can contribute in a positive way to the discussion.

No good news with today's virus stats, Victoria has recorded 374 new infections in the last 24 hours, the second highest figure for the entire pandemic.  We have also had 3 more deaths all females in their 80's, 90's and 100's.  Two of these deaths are as a result of the spread of the virus through the aged care and nursing home system.  It would appear that aged care facilities and nursing homes are heavily reliant on casual and contract staff.  These staff are poorly paid and work at more than one facility to work enough hours to earn enough to live on.  Match this up with staff who continue to work whilst infected because they can't afford to lose their wage and we have a recipe for disaster.  Maybe a royal commission or judicial enquiry will be necessary into the management or control of the virus in the aged care sector.

As we can see Victoria is at day 13 of the new lockdown period and there has been no meaningful reduction in the number of new infections.  On the other hand we haven't exceeded the figure of 428 new infections on 17/07, so maybe that is good news.  Victorian hospital and ICU figures continue to increase with 27 admissions to hospital for a total of 174 corona patients currently in Victorian hospitals.  There were 5 admissions to ICU in Victoria in the last 24 hours resulting in a total of 36 patients currently in ICU.

Worldwide infections are continuing at around the 200,000 plus per day and over 4,000 deaths per day.  

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Round Two Lockdown – Day 13

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	11,441	232	5,353	217	118	34	126	110	32	35
19/07	11,802	361	5,696	363	122	38	116	130	26	28
20/07	12,069	296	5,942	275	123	39	135	147	29	31
21/07	12,428	387	6,289	374	126	42	156	174	33	36
22/07
23/07

Date	World Infection	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	14,194,139	247,502	599,416	6,739
19/07	14,424,817	230,678	604,883	5,467
20/07	14,640,348	215,530	608,856	3,973
21/07	14,852,700	212,352	613,213	4,357
22/07

Remember to work from home when you can, 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, eat your vegies, don't ride your bike on the footpath, sanitize often and be kind.