Blog Day 367 - Tuesday 30 March 2021

Hmmm, seemed to have missed a couple days somewhere here, but no worries, life in the the covid world goes on.

This time 12 months ago I was wrestling with the vagaries of zoom and had just experienced my first zoom drinks session.  Little did we know at that stage how familiar, and dependent, we would all become on zoom.

Twelve months ago the blog had also featured the first of the "What's in the Pantry" segments featuring the makins for a bloody mary.  Little did we know that was going to develop into a popular and long running segment.

Talk about long running, 12 months down the track and Brisbane has gone into a 3 day lockdown with two virus clusters breaking out in that state.  Currently there are two clusters totalling 18 local infections all sourced from infections from 2 ROTs being treated in a Brisbane hospital.  A doctor caught the virus from a ROT from Qatar and a nurse from a ROT from India.

Unfortunately the nurse and her sister, who were both infectious attended a bachelorette party in Byron Bay infecting five other bachelorettes plus the male "entertainer".

Victoria has declared the Greater Brisbane area a red zone and Byron Bay an amber zone.  This means that various travel restrictions apply to travellers from Victoria attending these areas and then attempting to travel home.  Upon return from a red zone a traveller has to quarantine immediately, get tested within 72 hours and then quarantine again until the test results are received.  And did I mention that Easter and school holidays start at the end of this week!  Who is going to Brissy for their holiday??

Victoria reported one new case over the last couple of days, an airline crew member who is in hotel quarantine.  We have gone 32 days without a new locally acquired infection, however we still are not taking any ROTs.  Brisbane is a good example of the dangers of taking ROTs.

In the last 24 hours there were 18 new cases reported Australia wide of which 10 were ROTs.  Victoria reported all the zeroes again, NSW 5 new cases all ROTs and Qld 10 new cases of which only two were ROTs.

Vaccinations are continuing to roll out with a total of 560,000 vaccinations applied Australia wide which is a tad over 2% of the population.

In the last 24 hours Victoria received the results of 13,000 tests, NSW 7,300 and Qld 14,600.  It looks like Qld is ramping up its testing regime.

Currently there are 164 active cases Australia wide, of which 147 are ROTs.  Victoria has one active a case, a ROT, NSW has 54 active cases of which 52 are ROTs and Qld has 78 active cases including 73 ROTs.

In the last 24 hours worldwide there were 390,000 new infections and 6,172 deaths.  These figures appear to be on the increase again especially in places such as Brazil and France.  Brazil reported 44,000 new infections on 29/3 and 86,000 on 28/3.  

For the 24 hours of 29/03 the US reported 43,000 new infections and 506 deaths.  The UK reported 3,900 new infections and 21 deaths for the same period.

The US decline in new infections seems to have stalled a bit however the UK new infection and death figures are continuing to decline.

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	28,986	9	9	20,481	0	0	72	63	10	1
03/03	28,992	6	6	20,481	0	0	72	64	8	0
04/03	29,007	14	14	20,481	0	0	83	78	5	0
05/03	29,021	13	13	20,481	0	0	83	78	5	0
06/03	29,027	7	7	20,482	1	1	95	89	6	1
07/03	29,037	7	7	20,481	0	0	98	92	5	0
08/03	29,046	9	7	20,482	1	1	105	98	5	1
09/03	29,061	15	15	20,483	1	1	106	102	6	2
10/03	29,074	13	13	20,483	0	0	119	115	6	2
11/03	29,090	15	15	20,483	0	0	118	117	3	2
12/03	29,102	12	12	20,483	0	0	116		3	3
13/03	29,112	11	10	20,483	0	0	117		3	3
14/03	29,117	5	5	20,483	0	0	111		3	2
15/03	29,130	14	13	20,483	0	0	114	113	2	2
16/03
17/03
18/03
19/03
20/03
21/03
22/03	29,206	4	4	20,483	0	0	147	144	1	1
23/03	29,211	7	7	20,483	0	0	145	142	0	0
24/03	29,211	0	0	20,483	0	0	147	144	0	0
25/03	29,220	0	0	20,483	0	0	154	153	0	0
26/03	29,239	11	11	20,483	0	0	148	147	0	0
27/03	29,252	12	11	20,483	0	0	153	150	0	0
28/03	29,260	8	7	20,483	0	0	155	150	0	0
29/03	29,278	18	14	20,484	1	1	155	150	1	1
30/03	29,296	18	10	20,484	0	0	164	147	1	1

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	114,993,503	306,525	2,550,245	6,960
03/03/21	115,281,061	287,558	2,559,210	8,965
04/03/21	115,760,899	479,838	2,570,837	11,627
05/03/21	116,206,172	445,273	2,580,784	9,947
06/03/21	116,647,742	441,570	2,590,967	10,183
07/03/21	117,068,795	421,053	2,599,264	8,297
08/03/21	117,432,452	363,657	2,604,791	5,527
09/03/21	117,723,538	291,116	2,611,130	6,339
10/03/21	118,144,752	421,214	2,621,035	9,905
11/03/21	118,595,502	450,750	2,630,467	9,432
12/03/21
13/03/21
14/03/21
15/03/21	120,401,626	451,531	2,664,662	8,548
16/03/21
17/03/21
18/03/21
19/03/21
20/03/21	122,921,855		2,713,292
21/03/21	123,429,739	507,884	2,721,501	8,209
22/03/21	123,844,154	414,415	2,727,286	5,785
23/03/21	123,689,789	481,960	2,722,933	7,649
24/03/21	124,203,914	514,125	2,734,050	11,117
25/03/21	124,776,408	572,494	2,743,487	9,437
26/03/21	125,491,013	714,605	2,755,195	11,708
27/03/21	126,130,193	639,180	2,767,532	12,192
28/03/21	126,725,950	595,757	2,771,322	9,790
29/03/21	127,116,168	390,218	2,783,494	6,172

	US & UK Daily New Infections & Death Numbers
Date	US New Infections	US Daily Deaths	UK New Infections	UK Daily Deaths
01/03/21	51,204	1,097	6,055	144
02/03/21	57,439	1,431	5,462	104
03/03/21	56,758	1,924	6,411	343
04/03/21	65,909	2,360	6,420	487
05/03/21	65,447	1,775	6,644	242
06/03/21	66,786	1,758	6,024	236
07/03/21	57,596	1,485	6,118	159
08/03/21	40,903	669	5,260	82
09/03/21	50,237	719	4,823	65
10/03/21	55,909	1,891	5,869	231
11/03/21	57,939	1,554	6,021	190
12/03/21	62,404	1,557	6,835	181
13/03/21	61,204	1,769	6,684	176
14/03/21	52,642	1,701	5,617	122
15/03/21
16/03/21
17/03/21	53,811	1,165	5,363	110
18/03/21	58,971	1,173	5,793	141
19/03/21	60,381	1,611	6,332	95
20/03/21	61,413	1,445	4,872	100
21/03/21	52,753	771	5,639	96
22/03/21	33,243	429	5,356	34
23/03/21	48,759	529	5,407	18
24/03/21	51,587	844	5,417	112
25/03/21	86,947	1,454	6,277	63
26/03/21	67,443	1,558	5,626	98
27/03/21	77,339	1,121	6,235	71
28/03/21	62,062	741	3,909	58
29/03/21	43,440	506	3,947	21