Victoria: New PCR cases last 7 days (18 August - 24 August)

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VIC COVID weekly update: 18 August to 24 August

🔹New PCR cases: 479* (-38)
🔹Deaths: 15 (+0)
🔹Total deaths: 8,362 (+15)
🔹Hospital: 101** (+2)
🔹ICU: 4** (-2)

* PCR tests only

** 7 day rolling average

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Source: https://coronavirus.vic.gov.au/victorian-coronavirus-covid-19-data

VIC COVID weekly update: 11 August to 17 August

🔹New PCR cases: 517* (+75)
🔹Deaths: 15 (-12)
🔹Total deaths: 8,347 (+15)
🔹Hospital: 99** (+14)
🔹ICU: 6** (+1)

* PCR tests only

** 7 day rolling average

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Source: https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/victorian-coronavirus-covid-19-data

VIC COVID weekly update: 4 August to 10 August

🔹New PCR cases: 442* (-51)
🔹Deaths: 27 (-2)
🔹Total deaths: 8,332 (+27)
🔹Hospital: 85** (-12)
🔹ICU: 5** (+0)

* PCR tests only

** 7 day rolling average

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VIC COVID weekly update: 1 August

🔸Federal data

🔹New PCR cases: 518* (-584)
🔹Deaths: 0 (-43)
🔹Total deaths: 8,276 (+0)
🔹Hospital: 106** (-12)
🔹ICU: 4** (+2)

* PCR tests only
** 7 day rolling average

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Source: https://covidlive.com.au/vic

No more Sutton, no more COVID reports.

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Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/friday-marks-brett-suttons-last-day-as-cho-andrews-scraps-covid-death-hospitalisation-reports/news-story/1fb0f61c217d31d915c8ec6add759194

Victoria: New PCR cases last 7 days ( 21 July - 27 July)

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VIC COVID weekly update: 21 July to 27 July

🔹New PCR cases: 1,102* (+633)
🔹Deaths: 43 (-2)
🔹Total deaths: 8,276 (+43)
🔹Hospital: 122** (+1)
🔹ICU: 3** (-3)

* PCR tests only

** 7 day rolling average

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Victorian COVID deaths rise again.

"45 Victorians have died this week from COVID, up from 39 last week. It comes after a Melbourne study showed permanent public mask-wearing would reduce mortality rates by 25% over 12 months."

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Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/could-wearing-covid-masks-full-time-in-public-become-vic-policy-after-new-melbourne-research/news-story/c6be284de87d35ac9709a66499fa4dd9

Victoria: New PCR cases last 7 days ( 14 July - 20 July)

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VIC COVID weekly update: 14 July to 20 July

🔹New PCR cases: 469* (-74)
🔹Deaths: 45 (+6)
🔹Total deaths: 8,234 (+45)
🔹Hospital: 121** (-16)
🔹ICU: 6** (-2)

* PCR tests only

** 7 day rolling average

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"Wearing masks all the time in public would reduce COVID deaths across Victoria by 25%, in a finding Melbourne researchers say could help inform future state policy."

#COVID19Vic #Masks #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/could-wearing-covid-masks-full-time-in-public-become-vic-policy-after-new-melbourne-research/news-story/c6be284de87d35ac9709a66499fa4dd9

"Unvaccinated firefighters at Fire Rescue Victoria will remain off work, after it declared COVID vaccine mandates would remain in place."

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Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/while-police-and-most-teachers-now-exempt-from-vax-mandates-fire-rescue-vic-maintains-them/news-story/065970da033dd08bf092099a5cbb3bc9

"COVID ‘Orthrus’ detected in Vic wastewater, shortly after RAT cases reporting scrapped."

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Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/covid-orthrus-detected-in-vic-wastewater-shortly-after-rat-cases-reporting-scrapped/news-story/9e52e352ea307024d91b0dabe938a2df

(1/2) Victoria’s Chief Health Officer COVID Update - 14 July 2023

🔹An average of 6 deaths were reported each day in the past week
🔹Hospitalisation down 11% from last week

Omicron recombinant XBB sublineages remain dominant, accounting for 83%.

🔹XBB.1.16: 30%
🔹XBB.1.9: 13%
🔹XBB.1.5: 12%
🔹Other mixed XBB sublineages: 29%

Other variants include:
🔹CH.1.1: 5%

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Source: https://www.health.vic.gov.au/media-releases/chief-health-officer-update-14-july-2023

Victoria: New PCR cases last 7 days (7 July - 13 July)

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VIC COVID weekly update: 7 July to 13 July

🔹New PCR cases: 543* (-280)
🔹Deaths: 39 (-12)
🔹Total deaths: 8,189 (+39)
🔹Hospital: 137** (-21)
🔹ICU: 8** (+1)

* PCR tests only

** 7 day rolling average

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Deadline looms to destroy COVID-19 vaccination data.

"Employers have 30 days to destroy Victorians' COVID-19 vaccination data after the expiration of regulations introduced during the pandemic."

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Source: https://thewest.com.au/news/health/deadline-looms-to-destroy-covid-19-vaccination-data-c-11253139

(3/3) Steps to protect yourself and others.

Protecting yourself from getting infected is the best way to protect yourself and the community. If you don’t get COVID, you can’t spread COVID.

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(2/3) Omicron recombinant XBB sublineages remain dominant, accounting for 69%.

🔹XBB.1.16: 23%
🔹XBB.1.5: 12%
🔹XBB.1.9: 10%
🔹Other mixed XBB sublineages: 24%

Other variants include:
🔹BA.2: 11%
🔹CH.1.1: 10%

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