Blog Day 209 - Thursday 22 October 2020

 Only eight scruffy blokes waiting at the barber shop this morning.

Now here is a funny thing, the weather bureau is forecasting a 30% chance of storms and possibly thunderstorms for Brisbane on Saturday at the same time the grand final is being played.  The AFL rules are that if there is a lightning strike within 10km of the venue play has to stop for 30 minutes from the strike or from the last strike of the storm.  How ironic that after the way that the AFL has managed its way through probably the most difficult season in its history that the grand final could be stopped or even abandoned due to a thunderstorm.

I received a cheque for $12 today from the RACV being a partial refund of my roadside assistance premium for the months of April, May and June due to limited use of motor vehicles in that period of time.  Hmmmm, wonder what I will spend it on.

In the local figures, Victoria reported 5 new infections in the last 24 hours an increase from 3 the day before.  There are concerns around a cluster developing in the northern suburbs involving 16 active cases around six households.  The East Preston Islamic College has closed for cleaning and staff and pupils gone into quarantine as a result of a student from one of the infected households attending school prior to completing his quarantine period and subsequently testing positive to the virus.

Victoria has now gone 4 days without any further deaths and the state death toll due to the virus remains at 817 and the national figure is 905.  There are currently 9 Victorians in hospital due to the virus and none in ICU.

Rolling 14 Day Average;

21/10: Metro 6.2, Regional .4, Total 6.6

22/10: Metro 6.1, Regional .3, Total 6.4

Worldwide, in the last 24 hours there were 421,428 new infections and 6,106 new deaths.  The total number of deaths due to the pandemic is now 1,135,697.

The worldwide figures are as follows with last week's figures in brackets after the current figures.  The USA reported 438,000 (370,000) new infections for the week which is a significant increase on the week before and 5,600 (5,000) deaths for the week.  Brazil reported 159,000 (139,000) new infections and 3,700 (3,500) deaths, Mexico reported 35,000 (31,000) new infections and 2,500 (2,100) deaths for the week.  Of the 'big four' only India showed any decline in the number of new infections and number of deaths with 400,000 (472,000) and 5,300 (5,700) respectively.

In Europe the UK, Spain, Italy and France all reported large increases in the number of new infections for the week and they all also reported increases in the number of deaths.

The UK reported 135,000 (110,000) new infections and 1,000 (640) deaths for the week; Spain reported 109,000 (65,000) new infections and 950 (850) deaths; Italy reported 77,000 (39,000) new infections and 540 (230) new deaths for the week and France reported 178,000 new infections and 1,000 (590) new deaths.  I emphasise that these figures are for the week only.  Apart from Spain the number of deaths in the four European countries have nearly doubled in the week and given the significant increases in infections in the these countries the death rate will most likely continue to increase.

The USA, Brazil, Mexico and India account for 40% (43%) of the worldwide new infections and UK, Spain, France and Italy account for 18% (15%) of the worldwide new infections, between them these countries account for 58% (58%) of the worldwide new infections.

The percentages for the increase in deaths for the week are similar to the above.  The USA, Brazil, Mexico and India account for 43% (45%) of the new deaths for the week and the UK, Spain, Italy and France account for 9% (6%) of the new deaths. These 8 countries account for 52% (51%) of the worldwide new deaths.

Tables as below:

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Stage 4 Lockdown – 3rd Step Restrictions – Day 04

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
18/10	27,385	7	20,319	2	904	816	18	12	0	0
19/10	27,399	8	20,323	4	905	817	16	12	1	0
20/10	27,405	6	20,320	1	905	817	16	11	1	0
21/10	27,443	14	20,324	3	905	817	17	11	1	0
22/10	27,458	13	20,329	5	905	817	16	9	1	0
23/10

Country	Population	Infected No	Infected Increase	Deaths No	Deaths Increase No	Deaths per Million Population
Belgium	11,500,000	240,159	66,919	10,489	245	912
UK	68,000,000	789,229	134,585	44,158	1,003	649
Spain	47,000,000	1,046,641	109,330	34,366	953	731
Italy	60,000,000	449,648	76,849	36,832	543	614
Sweden	10,000,000	107,355	6,023	5,929	22	593
France	65,000,000	957,421	178,358	34,048	1,011	524
USA	331,000,000	8,584,819	438,442	227,409	5,608	687
Brazil	213,000,000	5,300,649	159,151	155,459	3,680	730
Mexico	129,000,000	860,714	35,374	86,893	2,473	674
South Africa	59,000,000	708,359	11,945	18,741	590	318
Russia	146,000,000	1,447,335	106,926	24,952	1,747	171
World	7,800,000,000	41,462,047	2,740,441	1,135,697	39,541	146
India	1,300,000,000	7,705,158	400,088	116,653	5,342	90
Australia	25,000,000	27,444	107	905	1	36
New Zealand	5,000,000	1,912	38	25	0	5

Corona Virus International Stats as at 22/10/2020

And now the stage 4 lockdown 3rd step restrictions remembers;

Remember: we still can't walk into a bar and get a beer; no matter how hard we try sometimes the figures just don't add up; if you are subpoenaed to produce documents to produce all of them!.