Blog Day 153 - Saturday 05 December 2020

 Another day of all the zeros for Victoria, although interesting to note that lots of people are still wearing masks, even outdoors where they are not compulsory.

Poo Patrol Report: Nil to report on the poo front today.

Tomorrow, Sunday 06/12, is the last day in the current 14 day cycle of virus restrictions so we are all expecting further announcements from the premier regarding relaxation of the current restrictions.  The most likely changes are to allow up to 30 visitors to a household at a time and to increase the number of patrons allowed in hospitality premises at a time.  Possibly up to 100 patrons in a venue subject to social distancing rules.  (This new 100 patron limit is possibly why the Shrine volunteer lunch can be held in the Town Hall.  We have been told that there is a strict 100 person limit and our function is being held in the town hall ball room instead of the smaller supper room where it is usually held).

There is also an expectation that the rules covering the wearing of masks maybe further relaxed.  

International flights start arriving in Melbourne in Monday, initially limited to 160 passengers arriving per day.  The arrangements for quarantine appear to be far more stringent and better organised than the last catastrophic go at it.  There appears to be very well defined lines of authority and responsibility.  Of course this time around there has been a lot more time available to put it together and the benefit the quarantine enquiry initial report identifying a lot of the shortcomings of the original program.

There are 125 travellers arriving on Monday and they are from Colombo, Doha, Hong Kong and Singapore.  I am wondering if some of these travellers are actually transiting through these countries.  Doha (Qatar), Hong Kong and Singapore could all be transit ports for flights from Europe.

Day 36 for the zeros for Victoria.  Australia wide there were 4 new infections reported, 2 in NSW and 2 in Qld, all returned overseas travellers.  There were 7,700 test received in Victoria in the last 24 hours, nearly 12,000 in NSW, nearly 3,000 in Qld and just over 3,000 in SA.  Victoria has zero active cases, NSW 1, Qld 11, WA 14, and NT 13.  Australia wide there are 47 active cases of which 39 are returned travellers.  

Still no good news worldwide, 696,000 new infections reported worldwide for a total of 66,211,000 infections worldwide for the pandemic.  There were 12,500 new deaths reported worldwide in the last 24 hours bringing the total number of deaths worldwide to 1,524,000.  These figures are marginally less than the previous 24 hours.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Towards Covid Normal – 2^nd 14 day stage – Day 13

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
22/11	27,819	12	20,345	0	907	819	22	1	0	0
23/11	27,828	8	20,345	0	907	819	22	1	0	0
24/11	27,843	8	20,345	0	907	819	21	0	0	0
25/11	27,853	4	20,345	0	907	819	22	0	0	0
26/11	27,857	1	20,345	0	907	819	27	0	0	0
27/11	27,872	5	20,345	0	907	819	23	0	0	0
28/11	27,885	13	20,345	0	907	819	22	0	0	0
29/11	27,892	7	20,345	0	907	819	22	0	0	0
30/11	27,902	9	20,345	0	908	820	21	0	0	0
01/12	27,912	8	20,345	0	908	820	19	0	0	0
02/12	27,921	9	20,345	0	908	820	21	0	0	0
03/12	27,939	16	20,345	0	908	820	27	0	0	0
04/12	27,947	8	20,345	0	908	820	28	0	0	0
05/12	27,953	4	20,345	0	908	820	26	0	0	0
06/12

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
23/11	58,970,438	494,689	1,393,227	7,452
24/11	59,501,552	531,114	1,401,567	8,340
25/11	60,076,607	575,055	1,413,704	12,137
26/11	60,700,994	624,387	1,425,387	12,139
27/11	61,308,161	607,167	1,437,835	12,448
28/11
29/11	62,573,188	1,264326	1,458,305	20,470
30/11	63,056,956	483,768	1,464,824	6,519
01/12	63,569,400	512,444	1,473,405	8,581
02/12	64,169,856	600,456	1,485,672	12,267
03/12	64,816,436	646,580	1,498,298	12,626
04/12	65,515,392	698,956	1,511,099	12,801
05/12	66,211,027	695,635	1,523,551	12,452
06/12

Remember: Wear your mask when you are buying your Bunnings sausage; no holidays in Britain for a while yet; be careful planning your computer upgrades (my most recent upgrade cost me $1,400); somebody is probably checking your poo; if in doubt get tested (it doesn't hurt, honestly); get the catgut strings in your tennis racket checked.