Blog Day 303 - Sunday 24 January 2021

At 12.13pm in the afternoon it is nearly 31 degrees celsius heading towards a forecast top of 36.  The lowest overnight temperature is forecast to only drop to 25 with a maximum of 40 forecast for tomorrow and back down to 23 for Tuesday, Australia day.

Was it Mr Carrier or Mr Westinghouse who invented air-conditioning, whichever it was we owe a huge debt of gratitude.

You may recall I attended a conference last night that was conducted in the UK.  It started 11.30am UK time which was 10.30pm here.  As the various attendees came on line they were commenting how cold it was in the UK and how much snow they were getting.  Amazing the difference a few thousand miles and a different hemisphere can make.

I made it through the morning session of the conference however I had to call it quits at lunch, 1.00am in the morning here.  The conference webcast will be available on line so I will be able to catch up in due course.

Tonight's session starts at 11.00pm this evening, I will see how far I get tonight.

Australia wide there has been four new cases reported, all ROTs with no new community infections.  Victoria reported one ROT infection, which makes 18 days of zero community infections for this state.  NSW reported 3 ROT infections and Qld had zero infections overall.

The number of tests has declined to nearly 12,000 in Victoria in the last 24 hours, 11,300 in NSW and only 4,600 in Qld.  

Currently there are 127 active cases Australia wide of which 65 are ROTs plus the 66 ROTs in NSW not included in their figures.

Worldwide there were 556,000 new infections in the last 24 hours taking the worldwide figure for infections for the pandemic to over 99 million.  In the same 24 hours there were 12,500 deaths.

In the US the new infections and death figures declined slightly however it continues a pattern of gradual decline in their figures, it would be nice for that to continue.

On the other hand the UK figures have increased slightly for both new infections and deaths. 

Listed below are the top 10 countries by vaccination per 100k of population.  Israel is top of the list with 40% of their population vaccinated.  The UK has vaccinated just over 9.3% and the US nearly 6%.  We haven't made it onto the top 10 yet, sorry, upon further investigation we haven't made it into the top 54.  We languish somewhere behind Ecuador who has vaccinated 108 Ecuadorians.

COUNTRY	VACC	DOSES	per 100k
Israel		3,432,023	40,287
UAE		2,426,798	24,837
Seychelles		13,163	13,432
UK		6,329,968	9,374
Bahrain		144,130	8,783
USA		19,107,959	5,807
Malta		17,767	4,038
Denmark		196,167	3,399
Slovenia		54,839	2,638
Ireland		121,900	2,497
Worldwide		61,107,445	792

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Day 24 – New Year 2021 – Covid Normal (as much as possible)

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
01/01	28,421	13	20,376	8	909	820	21	0	0	0
02/01	28,441	13	20,388	12	909	820	19	0	0	0
03/01	28,483	14	20,391	3	909	820	26	0	0	0
04/01	28,499	16	20,395	4	909	820	30	0	0	0
05/01	28,518	14	20,399	4	909	820	26	0	0	0
06/01	28,533	10	20,402	3	909	820	36	0	0	0
07/01	28,544	8	20,402	0	909	820	35	0	0	0
08/01	28,658	21	20,403	1	909	820	40	0	0	0
09/01	28,582	12	20,404	1	909	820	40	0	0	0
10/01	28,595	13	20,410	6	909	820	41	0	0	0
11/01	28,611	16	20,411	1	909	820	47	0	1	0
12/01	28,633	19	20,411	0	909	820	43	0	1	0
13/01	28,647	13	20,414	3	909	820	45	0	1	0
14/01	28,658	8	20,414	0	909	820	47	0	1	0
15/01	28,665	7	20,414	2	909	820	47	0	1	0
16/01	28,689	20	20,417	3	909	820	48	0	1	0
17/01	28,707	18	20,424	7	909	820	47	0	2	0
18/01	28,721	13	20,428	4	909	820	36	0	2	0
19/01	28,730	9	20,432	4	909	820	33	0	1	0
20/01	28,740	10	20,433	3	909	820	32	0	1	0
21/01	28,747	7	20,433	1	909	820	33	0	1	0
22/01	28,753	5	20,434	1	909	820	34	0	1	0
23/01	28,760	5	20,437	3	909	820	32	0	0	0
24/01	28,765	4	20,437	1	909	820	26	0	0	0
25/01

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
01/01	83,771,040	1,448,870	1,824,387	28,095
02/01	84,342,947	571,907	1,834,255	9,868
03/01	84,984,546	641,599	1,843,112	8,857
04/01	85,489,462	504,916	1,850,209	7,097
05/01	86,041,606	552,144	1,859,179	8,970
06/01	86,834,551	792,945	1,875,519	16,340
07/01	87,619,457	784,906	1,889,556	14,037
08/01	88,495,963	876,506	1,906,630	17,074
09/01	89,331,906	835,943	1,921,160	14,530
10/01	90,077,029	745,123	1,934,801	13,641
11/01	90,662,902	585,873	1,942,390	7,589
12/01	91,298,922	636,020	1,952,020	9,729
13/01	91,983,757	684,835	1,968,523	16,503
14/01	92,747,904	764,147	1,985,405	16,882
15/01	93,507,781	759,877	2,001,209	15,804
16/01	94,282,394	774,613	2,016,604	15,395
17/01	94,949,414	667,020	2,030,914	14,310
18/01	95,479,062	529,648	2,039,601	8,687
19/01	96,005,763	526,701	2,049,238	9,637
20/01	96,621,459	615,696	2,065,624	16,386
21/01	97,279,743	658,284	2,081,541	15,917
22/01	98,032,303	752,560	2,097,737	16,196
23/01	98,736,967	704,664	2,116,159	18,422
24/01	99,293,021	556,054	2,128,702	12,543

Covid Safe Summer Reminders;

Remember; stay safe and sober for the new year, I know I will be; no hugging and kissing strangers on new years eve!; don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things; as the captain of the Graf Spee said "you have to be bigger than anything faster and faster than anything bigger"; to wear your mask indoors (again); if you have a tickle in your throat, get tested (again); to add Brissie to your list of places to avoid; at a 1st birthday party be first in line for the fairy bread; try not to spend too much at Bunnings; bowls is the only game where the players are allowed to have a bias; if you see a big hole, take a photo; vote 1 Trump in four years time; brighten up your day by patting a puppy; don't start lining up for your jab yet.