Blog Day 338 - Monday 01 February 2021

It doesn't look like this corona virus thing has done the property market any harm.  Last weekend saw the highest number of properties auctioned since before the pandemic hit.  In Bentleigh East there were nine properties listed for sale over the weekend of which six sold at auction, one sold prior to auction and 2 were passed in.

The cheapest priced property that sold in Bentleigh East over the weekend was $1.065m and the most expensive was $1.96m.  Fancy paying nearly $2m for a property and ending up with me as your neighbour.

I have applied to do some work for the ABS in the upcoming census and you should see the rigmarole I have to go through as part of the application.  This morning I had to do a series of online tests and as a result of these tests they say that  "the ability to find solutions to problems, work with numbers (handy for an accountant) and think quickly under pressure are strengths of mine".  Pretty good eh?

One of the tests I had to do was look at some 30 or so ink blots and say what they looked like.  Why on earth would they have 30 ink blots that looked like naked women????

And still this virus thing rolls along.  I went for a walk this morning and popped on my mask to go into the supermarket and walked home, it was only when I was walking up the driveway at home I realised that I still had my mask on, it has become very much second nature.

My internet connection has been bouncing in and out all day today and I received a message from my ISP telling me that NBN Corp were doing emergency works in the area, so I will get done what I can with the blog in-between crashes.

Eight new virus infections reported Australia wide in the last 24 hours, all ROTS including 3 in NSW, 2 in Qld, 3 in SA and zero in Vic.  I am not sure if Victoria is taking any ROTs at the moment, can't see anything about it in the various press releases.

So far there has been 33,700 Australians vaccinated, 3,800 in Victoria, 10,300 in NSW and 2,000 in Qld, plus 10,000 in aged care not included in the state figures.  A further 300,000 units of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Australia over the weekend.  

There were nearly 7,000 test results received in the last 24 hours in Victoria, 10,700 in NSW and 3,700 in Qld.

Currently there are 71 active cases Australia wide including 61 ROTs.  There are 11 active cases in Victoria including 1 ROT, 38 in NSW all ROTs and 11 in Qld also all ROTs.  It looks like NSW is now counting its ROTs in its total active cases numbers instead of keeping them separate. 

Both the worldwide daily infections and deaths are continuing a downward trend in both new infections and deaths with 321,000 new infections and 6,600 deaths in the last 24 hours.

The new daily infections and deaths in the USA & UK are continuing a downward trend.  The US reported 68,000 new deaths in the 24 hours 28/02 and 1,536 deaths for the same period.  The UK reported 7,500 new infections and 291 deaths for the same 24 hour period.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – March 2021 – Covid Normal (for the time being)

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
01/03	28,978	8	8	20,481	0	0	71	61	11	1
02/03
03/03
04/03
05/03

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
01/03/21	114,686,978	321,386	2,543,285	6,582
02/03/21
03/03/21
04/03/21

	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	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
28/02/21	68,071	1,536	7,457	291

Covid Normal Reminders;

Remember: not to look for naked ladies in every ink blot.