We won't even be able to get out of SA until July at the earliest. We need Vic to get their positives down apparently.
Well seek and ye shall find seems to be the CV19 motto.
Another 16,000 odd tests again yesterday in Victoria (46% of all tests in Australia yesterday) and a high testing rate is meant keep happening till the end of May at least to look for more unknown cases.
Only one case today was linked to the Cedar Meats cluster, and so that cluster now looks to be petering out. The McDonald's cluster had another two, and so that will probably bubble for another several days yet before it has its last case..
Over the last week Victoria has gone from being below average in tests/population to now having the most tests/population. It would have been better to have done more tests earlier, but you can only test with what you have. So it is good to see that tests are now a lot more available.
The extra testing is finding more cases and Vic was at about the same number of cases/population as Qld and WA, but is now rising toward the higher, though now flat, rates of ACT/SA.
WA and Qld both have lower cases per population, but also have lower tests per population and so one may wonder if their testing should be expanded. ( See motto above). WA has tested at the rate of 62% of the national average. Qld at 76%.
It would be handy though if the quarantine figures were reported separated though as six of the new cases today are returned travellers in mandatory hotel quarantine. It does tend to induce a bugga whenever one first looks at the figures.
VIC 21 new cases, 1 previous excluded (Not sure what this means!) and so now showing at 20. Take out the quarantines = 14.
I find it best to look at unknown local transmission figures late in the day as they are more accurate then (as the contact tracers have been at work contact tracing).
ie This morning unknown local transmission was sitting at 0, but checking just now it now -10 (which means the source of 10 previous daily cases has now been identified). The last two days were at 0 unknown local transmissions.