Home
Care Sheet
Visitor Photos
Product Selection Guides
Bearded Dragon Care Q&A
Forums
New posts
Search forums
Resources
Latest reviews
Search resources
Bearded Dragon Care Q&A
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New resources
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Help
Website Help Guides
Contact Us
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Website & Community
Break Room (formerly Off Topic)
Life under social isolation or mandatory "stay home orders".
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
[QUOTE="kingofnobbys, post: 1982421, member: 81934"] 25 JANUARY = DELTA WAVE Day 223 & OMICRON TSUSAMI Day 48 < pt3 VIC > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 24/1/2022 VIC VIC recorded 14836 new cases, VIC local total for DELTA - OMICRON WAVE is now 749424 cases. Constrained by extreme shortage of RATs and restricted access to PCRs. VIC recorded 29 delta deaths.. Omicron VOC is the dominant strain in Victoria as it is in NSW. Density limits are in place in Victoria . Vic Health has mandated that RAT +ves must be reported. The statewide CODE BROWN in VIctoria remains in force. VIC Reff = 0.79 VIC PCR POSITIVITY = 27.8% [img]https://i.postimg.cc/nz9L8mYL/25jan2022-positivity-VIC.png[/img] VIC DAILY CASES SNAPSHOTS [img]https://i.postimg.cc/xT31SnHL/25jan2022-DAILY-LOCAL-CASES-VIC.png[/img] VIC DAILY CASES SNAPSHOTS WITH CURVE [img]https://i.postimg.cc/VvBm1WSz/25jan2022-DAILY-LOCAL-CASES-VIC-WITH-CURVE.png[/img] Victoria recorded 14,836 COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths on Tuesday, ending a run of declining daily case totals , the highest daily covid death toll since 2020. 29 virus-related deaths were reported in the state, 12 of which were people who died in the past two days. The deaths are the most tallied in a single day since September 4, 2020, when Victoria posted 59 fatalities amid Melbourne's 112-day lockdown. As of Tuesday morning, there were 1057 Victorians infected with coronavirus receiving medical care in hospital. Of those, 119 were in intensive care and 45 on a ventilator. The state's case numbers and hospitalisations from COVID-19 fell for four consecutive days before Tuesday's result, but both figures were higher than those recorded on Monday, when there were 11,695 cases and 998 in hospital. There are currently 183,154 active cases of COVID-19 across Victoria. Of the new infections reported by authorities on Tuesday, 6297 came from PCR tests, while 8539 were self-reported from rapid antigen tests. Health authorities in Victoria remain optimistic the latest wave of Omicron infections could have peaked last week, leading to a drop in community transmission. Hospital and intensive care admissions are expected to reach a high in the next two weeks before stabilising. However, authorities within the World Health Organisation have warned against assuming the worst of the pandemic is over, with Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus telling the agency's executive board in Europe on Monday that conditions were ideal for new variants to emerge. "There are different scenarios for how the pandemic could play out and how the acute phase could end, but it's dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant or that we are in the endgame," he said. WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said that while signs out of South Africa and Europe were encouraging, it was too early to talk about an end to the pandemic. "What we are entering is certainly a different space ... we're seeing it rise very rapidly when we see the enormous number of cases. But sadly, 50,000 people also lost their lives last week. So, we're still in the middle of a really, really terrible outbreak," she told radio station 3AW. Dr Harris said figures out of South Africa showed Omicron surged rapidly to create "enormously high peaks" before plummeting, but that trend wouldn't necessarily be replicated in other countries. However, she remained optimistic things would improve in the near future, adding humanity had handled the pandemic better than any other outbreak of a novel virus in history. "We've developed vaccines within a year of knowing this existed, and also knowing that we've struggled to develop good vaccines against previous members of this [virus] family," she said. More than 27,900 Victorians received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at state-run sites on Monday, increasing the state's vaccine coverage to more than 93 per cent for people aged 12 and over. To date, 32 % of Victorians have received three doses of the coronavirus vaccine. Vic hospital 'code brown' still needed. Victoria's unprecedented hospital emergency settings will remain in place, with health services still under "enormous strain" from the Omicron wave of COVID-19. A first system-wide "code brown" declaration was enacted in Melbourne hospitals and six regional ones last week, as health authorities forecast up to 2500 virus patients by early February. It was slated to last four to six weeks, although would be constantly reviewed. Since then, Victorian health services deputy controller Adam Horsburgh said there had been a drop in triple-zero calls and emergency presentations. The number of healthcare staff forced into the isolation as confirmed COVID-19 cases or close contacts has also fallen from more than 4000, to about 3500 on any given day. The easing shortage has been attributed to increased availability of rapid tests to release workers from isolation and more staff ending their seven-day quarantine period than beginning it. Despite the situation improving, Mr Horsburgh said the system is still under "enormous strain". "Therefore, we do think that the code brown setting is still the appropriate response at this point in time," he told reporters on Tuesday. 20% of calls to 000 are still not for emergencies and Mr Horsburgh said many people with COVID often ring or attend hospitals because they don't know how to access advice or support. To help more Victorians with mild COVID-19 symptoms recover from home, the state government is launching a new advertising campaign for its pathway program to run on TV, radio and social media platforms. "For those who are experiencing severe symptoms, the campaign explains what to look for," Health Minister Martin Foley said. Victoria's hospital patient numbers jumped by 59 to 1057 on Tuesday, after falling slightly in recent days. There remain 119 people in intensive care, with 45 of those on a ventilator. GREATER Bendigo has recorded another 76 cases in the past 24 hours. It brings the total number of cases in the municipality to 1136 as numbers climb above the 1100 mark. Of the new cases, 29 were recorded in the city centre's 3550 postcode, six in Eaglehawk's 3556, 11 in Kangaroo Flat's 3555 and one in Heathcote's 3523. Another 19 cases were found in the rural 3551 postcode. Further south, Castlemaine's Mount Alexander Shire recorded six cases and the Macedon Ranges 86. The Central Goldfields Shire recorded one, Loddon one, Campaspe 44 and Gannawarra one. Victorians emerging from self-imposed ‘shadow' lockdown. Victoria is emerging from a "shadow" lockdown in which people have limited their movements to levels seen only under stage-four restrictions in a bid to counter the spread of the Omicron outbreak. Research from the University of Melbourne shows that when the state government opted against imposing a lockdown as COVID-19 infections rose in December and January, Victorians took matters into their own hands and significantly limited their walking, car and public transport trips. It is a trend epidemiologists say reflects how mandatory restrictions over nearly two years have shaped cultural norms, similar to how seatbelts laws introduced more than half a century ago in Victoria normalised the practice. However, they argue this does not remove the need for mandatory interventions by governments. In the first week of January, as infections reached a high of 51,000 (a combination of PCR tests and a backlog of thousands of rapid antigen tests), people limited their movements to levels just 10 % above what was seen during stage four lockdown, according to research by Jason Thompson, a University of Melbourne modeller. But once cases began to fall, around January 11, they started making more trips, to about 60 to 70 % of pre-pandemic levels. "It's quite obvious that people are aware of what's going on, and they make provisions to avoid places where or avoid situations where they think they might be likely to get infected ... which is basically a sensible thing," Professor Thompson, who has worked on Victorian government's epidemic modelling, said. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Website & Community
Break Room (formerly Off Topic)
Life under social isolation or mandatory "stay home orders".
Top
Bottom