Blog Day 135 - Thursday 06 August 2020

Lets start the day with some good news.  At about 11.00am yesterday I ordered some printer ink from inkstation.com.au (there's a free plug for them), the package of ink arrived on my door step a 10.45 this morning.  So delivered less than 24 hours from ordering.  And not only that although they are not HP brand printer cartridges they were less than a quarter the price.  Will now have to see what the quality is like.

I also ordered a USB hub on line from Harvey Norman yesterday, lets see when than turns up.

Good to see that the local church is still praying for an end to the pandemic,

imagine how much trouble we would be in without their prayers!

Today's figures for Victoria are 471 new infections, down from 725 yesterday.  There were 8 further deaths in the last 24 hours in Victoria bringing our total to 170.  These 8 were in their 60's, 80's and 90's and 4 from the aged care system.  At the time of writing today's hospital and ICU figures had not been announced.

Now to the world figures.  Nearly every country on my spreadsheet reported increases in the number of infections and unfortunately nearly every country reported either increases in the number of deaths or similar numbers to last week.  The four biggies, USA, Brazil, Mexico and India unfortunately show no decline in the number of new infections or any decline in the death rate.  The USA reported nearly 7,800 deaths in the last week, Brazil 7,000, Mexico 4,300 and India 5,700.  Out of a total number of 41,000 deaths reported worldwide last week these four countries accounted for 25,000.

Apart from the UK the original group of European countries all reported deaths of less then 100 for the week.  The UK reported 403 deaths which is marginally less than the last two weeks.  Belgium, Spain, Italy, Sweden all reported less deaths for the week than Victoria and France was only marginally more.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Stage 4 Lockdown – Day 4

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
02/08	17,920	685	11,557	671	208	123	366	385	44	38
03/08	18,318	444	11,937	429	221	136	408	416	46	35
04/08	18,728	451	12,335	439	232	147	439	456	43	38
05/08	19,444	740	13,035	725	247	162	483	538	44	42
06/08	19,890	483	13,469	471	255	170	566		51
07/08

Corona Virus International Stats as at 06/08/2020

Country	Population	Infected No	Deaths No	Deaths %	Deaths Increase No	Deaths Increase %	Deaths per Million Population
Belgium	11,500,000	70,648	9,852	0.08567	19	0	857
UK	68,000,000	307,184	46,364	0.06818	403	1	682
Spain	47,000,000	352,847	28,499	0.06064	58	0	606
Italy	60,000,000	248,803	35,181	0.05864	52	0	586
Sweden	10,000,000	81,540	5,760	0.05760	30	1	576
France	65,000,000	194,029	30,305	0.04662	67	0	466
USA	331,000,000	4,973,568	161,601	0.04882	7,761	5	488
Brazil	213,000,000	2,862,761	97,418	0.04574	7,230	8	457
Mexico	129,000,000	456,100	49,698	0.03853	4,337	10	385
South Africa	59,000,000	529,877	9,298	0.01576	1,801	24	158
Russia	146,000,000	866,627	14,490	0.00992	817	6	99
World	7,800,000,000	18,973,478	711,181	0.00912	41,029	6	91
India	1,300,000,000	1,963,239	40,739	0.00313	5,736	16	31
Australia	25,000,000	19,444	247	0.00099	58	31	10
New Zealand	5,000,000	1,569	22	0.00044	0	0	4

Remember: to ask "are you OK"?, to work from home when you can, keep your vodka in the freezer, wash your hands, keep your distance, keep your mask on, sneeze into your elbow (yuk), don't sneeze with your mask on (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, keep your glasses unfogged, obey the police at roadblocks, don't put your hat on the counter at the bakery (cause the lady will shout at you), don't go to work if you are crook, the lime in your V & T is a good source of vitamin C, don't go to a day spa and then boast about it on FB, pay with a card, don't use cash (because you are wearing a mask you could run away without paying) and be kind.

And now the State of Disaster remembers;

Remember: to stay indoors between 8.00pm and 5.00am, stay safe & stay strong, respect the 5km limits, don't try & get a haircut drink your coffee at home and be kind.