Saturday, July 04, 2020

Victoria's coronavirus cases for Friday the 3rd is the second highest since coronavirus infections started

The latest figures for coronavirus cases for Friday the 3rd of July is 108 cases. The previous highest daily figure was 111 cases for the 27th of March (released on the 28th of March).

More of a concern is the increase in community transmission, which for the last few days has been 20 or above (31 on two days) and that's greater than at any previous time.

With the figures of 111 cases at least we knew most were from returned travellers and returned travellers could be quarantined. With 108 cases and the larger community transmission, where the source is not known, is now a greater issue than when we went into stage 3 restrictions.

It's hard to imagine if the situation doesn't improve, that we may have to go back into stage 3 lock down.

The one change that should be considered for Victoria is a split between regional and metropolitan. The number of infections in regional areas is very low, whereas most infections are in the metropolitan area. It doesn't make sense to treat regional Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne the same, when the situation is considerably different.

Kelvin Eldridge

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