Blog Day 331 - Monday 22 February 2021

Hold on to your hats, I will be tempting the fates and putting the entire country in jeopardy as I will not be presenting a blog tomorrow and as we know this can incur the 'curse of the blog'.

I will be spending most of tomorrow at the the Shrine, my first tour of duty there for nearly 12 months.  I have done my reinduction training and reviewed and acknowledged the various policies and procedures that the volunteers need to be familiar with and I am ready to go.

I was supposed to do two school tours last Tuesday but that got blown out of the water by our most recent mini lockdown.  So tomorrow I have two school tours, a one hour TGW tour with a group of year nines (now there is something to look forward to) and a one hour general Shrine tour with a group of grade 5/6s, (much more fun).  I am going to go in early and shadow one of the Shrine ed staff on one of their tours to bring myself up to speed on the mechanics of running tours under covid virus requirements.

I have just had my regular Thursday afternoon shift for the Shrine confirmed.  Due to the current restrictions on the number of staff that can be in a workplace we are limited to only half the volunteers being able to attend for each shift.  We usually have six volunteers at the Shrine on Thursday afternoons so at the moment we can only have three, so we will probably be working week about to give everybody a bit of a go, sounds reasonable to me.

Friday afternoon we are having a Shrine volunteer welcome back afternoon tea. This will be held outdoors so more people can attend and replaces our usual volunteer update and lunch.

The president of Tennis Australia got booed last night at the presentation of the prizes for the winner of the men's tournament.  Her crime, she happened to mention the Victorian state government and their support for the AO and welcome the availability of the vaccine.  Maybe she should have kept to just presenting the prizes and talking about tennis.

Victoria has reported zero new infections in the last 24 hours, both local infections and ROTs.  Are we actually taking any ROTs at the moment?  NSW had one case and Qld two, ROTs in both cases.  

Victoria received the results of 8,300 test in the last 24 hours, NSW 12,100 and Qld 3,600.  These numbers are down significantly on previous days testing, possibly due to the weekend.

Currently there are 41 active cases Australia wide, 22 of which are ROTs plus 28 ROTs in NSW.  Victoria has 25 active cases including 6 ROTs.

Now for our new section on vaccinations.  In the last 24 hours there were 37 vaccination injections given Australia wide, including 3 in Victoria, 23 in NSW, 6 in QLD, 4 in SA and 1 in ACT.  This figure does not include the injections taking place today as part of the rollout of the inoculation program.

Worldwide the figures continue to show a downward trend with 308,000 new infections reported in the last 24 hours and 6,300 deaths in the same period.  

The US figures have settled down a bit after yesterday's unexplained blowout.  The US reported 71,000 new infections for the last 24 hours, down from 108,000 the day before.  The US reported 446 deaths in the last 24 hours and this continues a downward trend, but as John one of my correspondents said about the number of deaths "Putting it simply, it’s a bloody big number!" and he is right.

The UK reported 10,000 new infections down from 12,000 the previous day and 446 deaths.  The trends in both new infections and deaths are both continuing strongly downward.  

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	28,835	6	5	20,452	3	2	51	39	21	21
05/02	28,839	4	4	20,455	3	3	53	40	24	23
06/02	28,848	6	6	20,456	0	0	52	41	22	23
07/02	20,850	2	2	20,456	0	0	52	41	21	20
08/02	28,856	6	4	20,456	1	0	53	41	20	18
09/02	28,860	2	2	20,456	0	0	46	34	15	13
10/02	28,867	7	5	20,458	2	0	46	31	16	11
11/02	28,878	7	5	20,460	2	0	48	31	17	10
12/02	28,887	7	2	20,465	5	0	45	34	19	12
13/02	28,892	5	4	20,466	1	0	40	32	20	13
14/02	28,898	6	4	20,469	3	1	42	34	21	14
15/02	28,900	2	1	20,471	2	1	44	33	21	14
16/02	28,905	5	3	20,475	4	2	45	37	25	18
17/02	28,909	4	4	20,475	0	0	42	25	25	9
18/02	28,912	1	1	20,476	1	1	41	25	25	9
19/02	28,918	5	2	20,479	3	0	41	23	27	9
20/02	28,920	2	2	20,479	0	0	39	22	25	6
21/02	28,925	5	5	20,479	0	0	41	22	25	6
22/02	28,929	3	3	20,479	0	0	41	22	25	6

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	104,861,308	482,651	2,275,840	13,756
05/02/21	105,394,460	533,152	2,292,538	16,698
06/02/21	105,879,863	485,403	2,307,031	14,493
07/02/21	106,329,652	449,789	2,318,949	11,918
08/02/21	106,677,372	347,720	2,326,819	7,870
09/02/21	106,983,743	306,371	2,335,265	8,446
10/02/21	107,377,125	438,382	2,348,700	13,435
11/02/21	107,849,724	472,599	2,364,864	16,164
12/02/21	108,280,120	430,396	2,377,223	12,359
13/02/21	108,726,332	446,212	2,394,005	16,782
14/02/21	109,085,416	359,084	2,403,982	9,917
15/02/21	109,382,123	296,707	2,411,000	7,018
16/02/21	109,664,689	283,566	2,418,025	7,025
17/02/21	110,018,939	354,250	2,428,135	10,110
18/02/21	110,405,233	386,294	2,439,103	10,968
19/02/21	110,818,188	412,955	2,451,955	12,021
20/02/21	111,638,728	411,032	2,471,435	9,755
21/02/21	111,640,253	411,032	2,471,466	9,755
22/02/21	111,948,332	308,079	2,471,775	6,309

	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	110,679	3,389	16,906	1,451
04/02/21	119,235	3,796	19,215	1,322
05/02/21	119,931	4,941	20,374	915
06/02/21	128,114	3,522	19,204	1,015
07/02/21	102,420	2,618	18,363	828
08/02/21	86,928	1,268	15,904	376
09/02/21	86,646	1,465	14,138	333
10/02/21	92,666	3,031	12,441	1,052
11/02/21	93,166	3,219	13,077	1,002
12/02/21	103,306	3,724	13,543	680
13/02/21	99,511	5,443	15,198	759
14/02/21	82,178	3,313	13,355	621
15/02/21	64,194	1,084	10,991	289
16/02/21	52,685	985	9,776	235
17/02/21	59,598	1,602	10,636	799
18/02/21	68,419	2,366	12,760	738
19/02/21	69,255	2,558	12,095	455
20/02/21	108,275	2,595	12,099	533
21/02/21	70,646	1,793	10,453	446

Covid Normal Reminders;

Remember: to think carefully before mucking around with spreadsheets and tables in Blogger; to keep up your Covid era exercise regime; if you put your mask on when you enter a shop you can take it of again when you leave ( I seem to get home and realise I still have my mask on); to laugh at my jokes; it is a beautiful day out there, get out and enjoy it; keep your corporate governance up to date; bring yourself up to date with the stage 4 lockdown rules; to buy your valentine day flowers before lockdown; those that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones; even in lockdown look both ways before you cross the road; to enjoy our refound freedoms, while they last; if you are Irish be careful attending your traditional rice feeding ceremony; don't go looking for hidden things, you don't know what you might find.