Blog Day 142 - Thursday 13 August 2020

There is something strange, possibly even underhand, going on in this marvelous state of ours.  Not much detail available as yet but apparently some of the health minister's (Mikakos) responsibilities have been transferred to the the department of justice, whose minister's name I can't currently recall and can't be bothered looking up.  Now this is unusual in itself but even more unusual is that this transfer of responsibilities is back dated to 7th July.  I ask myself how can someone be responsible for something that they weren't responsible for at that time?

Anybody else getting a whiff of smoke and mirrors?  There will be more to come on this in due course.

Today's figures.  Victoria has reported 278 new infections for a total of 15,924 infections for the term of the pandemic. The number of new infections is the lowest since 20 July, starting to sound like good news. We have also reported 8 more deaths for a total of 275.  There are 662 Victorians in hospital, 37 of those in ICU and 25 on ventilators.

Unfortunately there is no good news with the international figures with 273,000 new infections reported in the last 24 hours and 6,500 deaths for the same period.

In the last week there was a 1.8m increase in the number of infections worldwide.  Of this number the USA, Brazil and India reported 1.1m new infections equal to 62% of the world total.  Worldwide there were 752,000 deaths reported in total for the pandemic an increase of 41,000 for the week to date.  Of the total deaths of 752,000 the USA, Brazil, India and Mexico have reported 363,000 or 48% of the total.  

The USA still leads the pack with the total number of deaths and the highest increase in the last week. 

New Zealand is acting quickly to control an pocket of the virus in Auckland.  After going weeks without any new unaccounted for infections they have a cluster of 17, one of whom attended an aged care facility the day before they were confirmed to be infected.  These infections may have come from a family member handling an item in a cold store facility that may have had the virus on it.  This theory as to the source of the virus is unconfirmed as yet.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Stage 4 Lockdown – Day 11

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	20,270	461	13,867	450	266	181	600	607	52	41
08/08	20,697	475	14,283	466	278	193	632	636	51	44
09/08	21,084	412	14,659	394	295	210	659	634	53	43
10/08	21,397	337	14,957	322	314	229	657	640	51	47
11/08	21,713	353	15,251	331	332	247	664	650	54	47
12/08	22,127	428	15,646	410	352	267	673	662	51	43
13/08	22,417	290	15,924	278	361	275	685	664	51	37
14/08

Corona Virus Weekly International Stats as at 13/08/2020

Country	Population	Infected No	Infected Increase	Deaths No	Deaths Increase No	Deaths Increase %	Deaths per Million Population
Belgium	11,500,000	75,008	4,360	9,885	33	0	860
UK	68,000,000	313,798	6,614	46,706	342	1	687
Spain	47,000,000	376,864	24,017	28,579	80	0	608
Italy	60,000,000	251,713	2,910	35,225	44	0	587
Sweden	10,000,000	83,455	1,915	5,774	14	0	577
France	65,000,000	206,696	12,667	30,371	66	0	467
USA	331,000,000	5,360,302	386,734	169,131	7,530	5	511
Brazil	213,000,000	3,170,474	307,713	104,263	6,845	7	489
Mexico	129,000,000	498,380	42,280	54,666	4,968	10	424
South Africa	59,000,000	568,919	39,042	11,010	1,712	18	187
Russia	146,000,000	902,701	36,074	15,260	770	5	105
World	7,800,000,000	20,794,831	1,821,353	752,372	41,191	6	96
India	1,300,000,000	2,395,471	432,232	47,138	6,399	16	36
Australia	25,000,000	22,417	2,973	361	114	46	14
New Zealand	5,000,000	1,589	20	22	0	0	4

Sorry about the formatting of this table but not much I can do about it, I already create it in excel (so that the formulas work) and then cut and paste it into a word document which I then cut and paste into the blog page and it is still a dog's breakfast.  I will keep trying, by the time I get it right with a bit of luck this pandemic thing will be over. It looks perfect in the edit page!

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, don't dither at the supermarket checkout, don't get Jim's Mowing in to cut your grass, get some virus approved exercise, shop at Harvey Norman for good service, be honest, if in doubt wear a mask and a face shield and be kind.