So the Australian state Victoria has been in lockdown for around a month yet cases are still rising with 700 positives today. Seems like a hot mess for me as an outsider. Victoria's hospitals are likely to reach capacity within weeks if the infection rates don't fall down.
Either lockdowns don't really work if the rules are too soft or there is something terribly wrong over there.
Victoria entered stage 4 lockdown on Sunday night. This will last for at least 6 weeks.
Most non-essential businesses closed, schools and universities closed, public transport still open but only for essential workers, people only allowed out within 5km radius of their homes, curfew from 8PM - 5AM. This is a New Zealand style lockdown and I reckon within 3-4 weeks you will see the numbers drop down dramatically. Fines have also been ramped up for those breaking lockdown/stay at home orders. About time.
They said 1 in every 4 people who were meant to be at isolating in their homes (positive with COVID) were not at home when authorities went door knocking. These assholes were almost certainly spreading it around the city. 700 cases a day in a population of about 5.5M or so is horrendous, on a per capita basis it’s almost as bad as Mexico.
No idea how over here in NSW we have managed to hold out the second wave (so far) only recording roughly between 10-15 cases a day for now. After the outbreak in early July at the pub, I seriously feared for the worse over here.
Our contract tracing team deserves a medal if they get us through these next rocky few weeks and months.