Blog Day 313 - Wednesday 03 February 2021

Apologies for no blog yesterday but I went to Mornington for a nice lunch at Kirks Hotel.  I well remember Kirks from the days when I used to spend a fair bit of time at Mornington and a fair bit of that time is a bit hazy in the old memory banks.

Anyway Kirks has had a bit of a refit since those days and is nice place overlooking the bay for lunch, or dinner for that fact, with some good company.

I have noticed in a number of venues that staff are going out of their way to be polite and friendly and I wonder if this is as a result of not having a job for many months and they now appreciate a bit more the work when they have it.  Or did we, the customer, just take them for granted as well?

 Just back from my walk, beautiful Melbourne summer day, working up to a maximum of 25 degrees, blue skies and a gentle zephyr of a breeze.  Gets a bit nastier tomorrow maximum of 30 and humid, and then back down to low 20's.

Victoria has recorded 28 days with zero local virus infections, Qld 23 days and NSW 17.  In the last 24 hours Victoria recorded zero new infections, including ROTs, NSW recorded 2 new infections , both ROTs, and WA recorded zero new infections.  It looks as though WA may have dodged a bullet.

Victoria received the results of 16,100 tests in the last 24 hours for a zero result, NSW received the results of 11,800 tests and Qld 6,900.  WA reported 10,000 tests but this was for 2/2, given the time differences when I gather information for the blog the latest WA figures aren't available.

Currently Victoria has 21 active cases, all ROTs; NSW 14 active cases plus 38 ROTs; Qld 7 active cases, all ROTs and WA 9 active cases, 8 of which are ROTs.  Australia wide there are 57 active cases, 42 of which are ROTs plus 38 ROTs in NSW.

Given there has been no deaths Australia wide for many weeks and little movement in hospital numbers I will only report on them if there is significant change in those categories.

Worldwide there were 486,000 new infections reported in the last 24 hours and 15,600 deaths.  The worldwide daily infection rates appear to be declining but there is very little movement in the daily death figures but given the wide fluctuations in the daily figures it is hard to determine a pattern with any degree of accuracy.  

The US reported 131,000 new infections in the last 24 hours and 1,881 deaths, both of these figures seem to indicate a slight downward trend in both new infections and deaths.

The UK reported 19,000 new infections in the last 24 hours and 400 deaths, again these figures seem to be part of a downward trend.  Lets see what the rest of the week hold for both the US & UK.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – February 2021 – Covid Normal (as much as possible)

*Please note that the “Aus Active & Aus ROTs columns do not include the NSW ROTs.  (ROTs = Returned Overseas Travellers)

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Aus ROTs Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Vic ROTS Increase	*Aus Active Infection	*Aus ROTs	Vic Active Infection	Vic ROTs
01/02	28,817	7	7	20,449	1	1	61	44	21	21
02/02	28,820	2	2	20,450	1	1	61	43	22	22
03/02	28,830	6	6	20,450	0	0	57	42	21	21
04/02
05/02
06/02
07/02
08/02
09/02
10/02
11/02

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
01/02/21	103,514,297	412,018	2,237,252	9,577
02/02/21	103,892,731	378,434	2,246,435	9,183
03/02/21	104,378,657	485,926	2,262,084	15,649
04/02/21
05/02/21

	US & UK Daily New Infections & Death Numbers
Date	US New Infections	US Daily Deaths	UK New Infections	UK Daily Deaths
31/01/21	136,252	2,640	23,400	1,205
01/02/21	110,470	1,789	21,190	590
02/02/21	130,759	1,881	18,668	407
03/02/21

Covid Safe Summer Reminders;

Remember: to think carefully before mucking around with spreadsheets and table in Blogger; to keep up your Covid era exercise regime.