JUNE 2020


COVID-19.

Covid-19 data for Australia is:


As at 3PM on 29th June, a total of 7,767 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 104 deaths.


Jurisdiction
CASES NEW CASES DEATHS
Australia 7767
85
104
ACT 108
0 3
NSW
3184
7
49
NT 29
0 0
QLD 1067
0 6
SA
443 3
4
TAS
228
0 13
VIC
2099
75
20
WA
69
0 9


The Victorian government appears to have allowed the plague to spread.  75 new cases out of 85 new cases.  And (Unlike NSW & SA) most of those 75 were from local transmission.

How you ask?  What did Victoria do wrong?  Well my take is...


1)  They should have insisted on testing.  30% of people requested refused.  (There is a rumor that they were suspicious that the test was a surreptitious attempt by the government to get a copy of their genes.)   But the evidence is in.  Around 50% of infected are "Asymptomatic" meaning no symptoms.  But recent evidence is that they are just as capable of infecting others as symptomatic infected.


2)  They should have enforced the limits on the size of family gathering.  There are reports of various religious minorities gathering in defiance and not being prosecuted.  This has been attributed the cause of Victorian new cases.



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