Author Archive | Michele

World 18.2 million    Colombia 300K+       Saudi Arabia 280K+             Premier Daniel Andrews said yesterday that there are around 760 active cases diagnosed in our state over recent days that cannot be traced back to a source. This level of community transmission suggests that there are also a lot more undetected cases. The daily infection tallies […]

World 18 million       Russia 840K+             South Africa 500K+ This afternoon Premier Daniel Andrews announced there were another 12 fatalities and 671 more cases of COVID-19 recorded in Victoria in the past 24 hours. Around 18,000 tests were done, so this is back up to 3.7 per cent positive tests which is not good. Daniel […]

World 17.7 million    Mexico 410K+           Spain 330K+              Some good news. The program that is sheltering homeless Victorians has been extended until April next year. Around 7,000 people who were given shelter when the pandemic started will now have a home until at least April 2021. There are calls for the program to be […]

World 17.3 million    Peru 400K+    Chile 350K+ Two young women who travelled from Victoria back into Queensland have tested positive to coronavirus. Over eight days they visited a long list of venues and businesses in Queensland and are being investigated along with a third woman for their involvement in a crime syndicate stealing luxury […]

World 17 million       USA 4.5 million        Brazil 2.5 million      India 1.5 million One month ago there were just over 10 million recorded cases of COVID-19 worldwide, four million of them were active and there had been 500,000 fatalities. Cases were increasing by one million each week. Now we have over 17 million cases, almost 700,000 […]

World 16.8 million                Pakistan 270K+         Indonesia 100K+ Indonesia has officially reached 100,000 cases of coronavirus, the 24th country to do so. For a while now Australia has been sitting around 72nd on this infection list. We now have over 15,000 cases, the bulk of them in Victoria and most of those in privately run […]

World 16.6 million    Spain 320K+              UK 300K+      This pandemic is transforming the world. Trying to ‘get back to normal’ seems like a futile exercise. As soon as you open up again, infection spreads and you have to lockdown again. It’s happened in a number of places. Here in Victoria and currently in Spain where case […]

World 16.4 million    Peru 380K+                Chile 340K+ On Saturday we did the grocery shopping and dutifully wore our masks. Everyone in the supermarket was wearing them. I asked the young woman at the checkout, also masked, and wearing gloves, whether there had been any covidiots shopping there. She replied, ‘Not today so far, but […]

World 16.1 million    India 1.3 million       Russia 800K+                        The last time I put petrol in my car was the start of March and I still have a third of a tank. When we go out shopping, we generally go in Neil’s car. He’s only filled up once since March. My car sat under the carport […]

World 15.9 million    Brazil 2.3 million      South Africa 420K+ My local golf course reopened on Thursday. It closed for two days earlier in the week when a member notified the club of his positive COVID-19 test. The decision by the club to close was a voluntary shutdown and not a requirement, as the person concerned […]