I am only posting those numbers based off what is available on Worldometers. We all assume there are probably twice as many cases as have been reported and possibly up to 50% more deaths, but they are not “known” figures so at this point in time cannot be used.
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Daily Update :
There are no new entrants to the competition today.
There are 2 new entrants to the “Over 100” club today. Malawi add a further 18 cases to join, and Syria add a further 20 cases. That’s 168 countries / territories / cruise ships in the world that have joined this club.
There are 2 new entrants to the “Millennial” club today. Albania crawl over the line with 6 new cases. To this point they have 32 losses, which is poor efficiency. Equatorial Guinea add 83 cases to join. With only 12 losses to this point, they are ahead of the curve.
At the top of the leaderboard today and there are no positional changes today. As noted in the media, Spain have reallocated some of their losses today. This has brought their losses per population back inline with UK and Italy. Worth noting that Brazil have had more losses in the past 2 days than the USA.
The winner of the “Most Non-Improved” award today is Guatemala, again. Inspired by winning this award yesterday they have managed to further up their output. Today Guatemala put up a personal best of 370 new cases, at a momentum of 12%, beating yesterdays 311 at 11%. It’s not often we give someone this award 2 days in a row, but Guatemala have experienced a very sharp upswing.
As we fall down to 60th spot today I thought it might be interesting to look back on when we were sitting on other milestone positions on the leaderboard, and how many cases the country that has that spot today has.
We were in 50th spot on the 14th May. Bahrain now holds that spot with 9171 cases.
We were in 40th spot on the 22nd April. Japan currently holds that spot with 16581 cases.
We were in 30th spot on the 14th April. Ireland currently holds that spot with 24698 cases.
We were in 20th spot on the 3rd April. Qatar currently holds that spot with 45465 cases.
The highest on the leaderboard we have been is 16th, which occurred on the 23rd March. Chile currently hold that spot with 73997 cases.
Fair indication of what things could have looked like.
Australia put 4 new cases on the board today. We fall another spot to 60th position on the leaderboard. Moldova moves above us adding a further 54 cases to their tally. Our HaPP-IE not-an-index falls by 19 to 485. The last time we were in the 400s was the 17th March. We move closer to beers without meals than Ethiopia. Our number that matters is 102.
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I wasn’t aware they were doing the testing blitz but it was a very good idea and explains some of the testing numbers from late last week and over the weekend.
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I think it’s generally accepted that compared to, say, traveling on a busy train, aircraft are better set up to minimise infection, but current guidelines say two rows forward and back are at risk of infection in general, and we also have an example of a reasonably bad SARS infection on air transport. I don’t think it’s necessarily the biggest risk, but with the confined space and long duration there is still risk.
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Further evidence to support the theory about young children not being asymptomatic carriers of the disease.
In other news, a second private school in Sydney’s East has been closed after student tested positive. Moriah College, the student in question was last at school last Thursday.
Waverley council and Sydney’s eastern suburbs absolutely the Covid-19 hotspot in Aus still.
Glad I’m not working in Sydney anymore, given I was located at Watson’s Bay. Very happy to be in the wide open spaces of the west for this event.
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The trial began with six volunteers being injected with the potential vaccine in Melbourne on Tuesday, said Paul Griffin, infectious disease expert with Australian collaborator Nucleus Network.
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Is that confirmed evidence of transmission of infection on a flight?
FYI: Nucleus Network is Australia’s largest and most experienced Phase I Clinical Research Organisation (CRO)
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New case in QLD a passenger from the Ruby Princess who evidently has carried the virus for up to 10 weeks before falling ill.
Be a good test case for asymptomatic transmission right there.
Covid-19 is a fraud
AMEN
For them and others who don’t read the facts thread:
She was infected for TEN weeks before she got sick?
that’s the assertion.
So much for the 14 day quarantine period then!
It’s a sneaky bugger if that’s true. Jeepers.