5 new cases today, 13 recoveries, active cases down to 58.
Vic +5
Hotel Quarantine +3
Existing Aged Care Home (Caulfield) +1
Random Testing +1
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“It (the halt) comes after a recent medical study suggested the drug could increase the risk of patients dying from Covid-19.”
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USA manipulating their death figures to delay it reaching 100,000 and create bad headlines. 800 and 500 the last couple of days which is inconsistent with the 1300 and 1500 they were getting previously.
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The scary part is that if Covid finally gets a vaccine and the world adopts these hygiene standards permanently, thus reducing other infectious diseases death rates we are going have lots more people on this earth depleting its resources. We’ll get to 10 billion a lot quicker. That’s depressing.
the last time numbers were this low pubs and clubs were still open.
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Well if you ask some people, Bill Gates is working on solving that problem.
And on trying to get a vaccine for malaria, which works in the opposite direction.
It has been Memorial Day Long Weekend. Maybe that would make some difference?
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Yep.
Dr Burkes stated that there have been abnormal Mondays as weekend testing is usually slowed down meaning there are ‘spikes’ early in the week. That’s why she uses the 3 to 7 day averages to help see the trend.
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Teacher at Keilor Downs Secondary tested positive, teacher hasn’t been at school.
the east has made this a western suburbs disease now.
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Do people hold off dying because it’s a long weekend? 
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The Keilor Downs teacher was part of a testing blitz, testing over 17,000k teachers and education staff over the last week, the positive test was returned last Friday with the teacher having had no contact with other staff, students or the school itself.
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The Rugby came back last weekend in Sydney. About 35,000 people at the game. Ho Hum, get with the herd immunity App.
lol
solid fairytale…
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There are still very large numbers of expats out there, and when lockdown is released many will want to head back here while COVID continues to rage in the UK, Europe and the Americas.
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No, the clerical staff just let the death reports pile up in the queue until they go back to work on the monday, and process 3 days worth in one day.
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thats good news.