Blog Day 175     - Sunday 27 December 2020

Any time I take a break from the blog the poo seems to hit the spinning air circulation device.  Community infections and lockdowns in NSW,  border closures across the country, attempted escapes from hotel quarantine in Victoria, the virus still rampant overseas and the release of the hotel quarantine commission report, which told us nothing anyway.

I trust that you have all had an enjoyable and safe christmas and now to look forward to a new year that doesn't contain the surprises that this old year has.

There is test cricket being played at the MCG to a crowd limited to 30,000. The Sydney - Hobart yacht race was cancelled due to the virus conditions in NSW, so things aren't quite back to normal in the sporting world.  The Australian Open is scheduled to start in Melbourne on 8 February.  

Now to some figures, in the last 10 days there were 239 new infections recorded Australia wide, I think that this figure includes overseas travellers in hotel quarantine in all states except NSW.  NSW does not include returned travellers in hotel quarantine in their state figures.

In the last 23 hours Victoria recorded one returned traveller as infected, NSW recorded 11 new infections of which 7 were community transmissions and 4 overseas travellers in quarantine.  As at today Victoria has 10 active cases, 9 of which are returned overseas travellers; NSW has 134 active cases excluding returned overseas travellers of which they have 82; Qld has 10 active cases and WA 12, all returned travellers.  Australia wide there are 182 active cases including 47 returned overseas travellers but not including returned overseas travellers in NSW.

These results are the outcome of 5,900 test results received in Victoria in the last 24 hours, nearly 24,000 tests in NSW and 1,600 in Qld.

NSW still has 6 or 7 mystery cases, (source unknown) and they still haven't located to "patient zero" in the Northern Beaches.

Worldwide things have got no better during my little sabbatical.  In the last 10 days there were over 6 million new infections reported worldwide for an average of 623,000 per day taking the total number of infections worldwide to 80,710,866 for the pandemic.

In the same period a further 110,000 people died worldwide due to the pandemic for an average of 11,000 per day, bringing the total number of deaths worldwide due to the pandemic to 1,764,374.

Some countries have started to roll out the vaccines, however obviously to soon to have any effect on the figures just yet.  Many European countries have tightened their lockdowns including Britain and Germany to try and get control of things.  

Figures as below;

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Day 22 – Covid Safe Summer 

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
7/12	27,972	7	20,345	0	908	820	29	0	0	0
8/12	27,984	12	20,345	0	908	820	38	0	0	0
9/12	27,992	8	20,345	0	908	820	32	0	0	0
10/12	28,000	8	20,345	0	908	820	34	0	0	0
11/12	28,009	9	20,345	0	908	820	38	0	0	0
12/12	28,024	12	20,350	5	908	820	39	0	0	0
13/12	28,029	4	20,351	1	908	820	35	0	0	0
14/12	28,037	6	20,352	1	908	820	34	0	1	0
15/12	28,045	6	20,352	0	908	820	29	0	1	0
16/12	28,060	12	20,352	0	908	820	29	0	1	0
17/12	28,069	10	20,351	0	908	820	25	0	1	0
27/12	28,308	239	20,362	11	908	820	24	0	0	0
28/12

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
07/12	67,369,090	522,049	1,541,330	6,986
08/12	67,902,378	533,288	1,549,611	8,281
09/12	68,570,613	668,235	1,562,562	12,951
10/12	69,209,416	638,803	1,574,726	12,164
11/12	70,681,604	660,537	1,587,481	12,755
12/12	71,397,856	716,252	1,600,189	12,708
13/12	72,085,419	687,563	1,610,779	10,590
14/12	72,646,618	561,199	1,618,908	8,129
15/12	73,174,243	527,625	1,627,270	8,362
16/12	73,803,320	629,077	1,641,440	14,170
17/12	74,481,791	678,471	1,654,054	12,614
27/12	80,710,866	6,229,075	1,764,374	110,320

Covid Safe Summer Reminders;

Remember; no hugging and kissing strangers on new years eve!