Blog Day 337 - Sunday 28 February 2021

The last day of summer today and apparently it has been the coolest summer in something like 20 years.  I wonder how Tim Flannery and his global warming "sky is falling" acolytes are going to spin this. Remember this is the Tim Flannery whose particular field of expertise is studying animals that became extinct millions of years ago, also the same Tim Flannery who famously said that it would never rain in South Eastern Queensland ever again and suddenly amongst other things has become the ABC's expert on Koala bears. (I just had a look at Flannery's Wikipedia page and he certainly started academic life with a disadvantage, his first university qualification was a BA from Latrobe uni, I wonder if he enjoyed working at Maccas after that)?

As they say, how much can koala bear?

Auckland has gone into another seven day lockdown after a contagious male who was moving through the community when he should have been in isolation.  Anybody arriving in Victoria from NZ has to go into 14 day quarantine on arrival.  If New Zealand is lurching from lockdown to lockdown with it's well managed response to the virus what hope is there for us with our "gold standard" hotel quarantine and "best in Australia" contact tracing.

And gentle reader a bit of a reminder of where we currently fit into the top 10 table of vaccinations by percentage of population by country.  How silly of me we aren't in the top 10, Israel is top of the list with  over 93% of the population vaccinated and Serbia is the last of the top 10 with nearly 16% of the population vaccinated.  Australia is currently 78th out of 93 countries on the chart that I am using and we have vaccinated .93% of the population, that is less than 1% folk.

VACCINATIONS

Total doses administered

COUNTRY	VACC	DOSES	per 100k
Israel		7,957,787	93,412
Seychelles		75,096	76,629
UAE		5,933,299	60,724
UK		19,913,592	29,489
USA		70,454,064	21,410
Maldives		99,419	18,723
Bahrain		292,917	17,850
Chile		3,345,027	17,650
Malta		73,644	16,737
Serbia		1,393,086	15,881
Worldwide		234,240,676	3,037

By all other measures we are doing remarkably well with only 5 new cases reported in the last 24 hours all in NSW and all ROTs.

Australia wide we have vaccinated 26,000 people, 3,762 of them in Victoria.

Victoria received the results of 7,400 tests in the last 24 hours, NSW 11,200 and Qld 5,200.  Eleven suburbs in Melbourne's west have been put on poo alert after traces of the virus was found in their sewage.  

Currently Victoria has 15 active cases (probably with active bowels as well), 4 of which are ROTs, NSW has 38 active cases, all ROTs and Qld has 11 active cases also all ROTs.  Australia wide there are 34 active cases including 23 ROTs plus the 38 ROTs in NSW.

Worldwide there were 397,000 new infections reported in the last 24 hours which appears to be a slight downward trend although the weekend figures are notoriously unreliable.  There were 8,371 deaths reported worldwide in the last 24 hours and this is continuing a stronger downward trend.

For the 24 hours of 27/02 the US reported 73,000 new infections and 2,151 deaths, both continuing a downward trend.  The UK reported 8,588 new infections and 345 deaths for the same period, also both continuing a downward trend.

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
23/02	28,957	7	7	20,479	0	0	41	22	25	6
24/02	28,939	2	2	20,479	0	0	36	17	20	1
25/02	28,939	0	0	20,479	0	0	32	22	16	6
26/02	28,957	10	8	20,481	2	0	35	23	17	5
27/02	28,965	7	7	20,481	0	0	35	25	15	5
28/02	28,970	5	5	20,481	0	0	34	23	15	4

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
23/02/21	112,266,824	318,492	2,485,069	13,294
24/02/21	112,638,446	371,622	2,495,339	10,270
25/02/21	113,057218	418,772	2,506,087	10,748
26/02/21	113,550,202	492,984	2,519,328	12,241
27/02/21	113,968,887	418,685	2,528,332	9,004
28/02/21	114,365,592	396,705	2,536,703	8,371

	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
22/02/21	56,495	1,249	9,835	217
23/02/21	54,456	1,347	10,659	178
24/02/21	69,828	2,284	8,523	548
25/02/21	73,386	3,148	9,942	442
26/02/21	75,176	2,237	10,020	324
27/02/21	73,006	2,151	8,588	345

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; to pay your bills on time; to move your bowels regularly.