In Melbourne we are getting closer to freedom. The numbers are coming down nicely and diving in further to the numbers there is very little new cases in the community, in fact there was no cases of community transmission in the last week. We are now at a point where contact tracers are able to act quickly and get hopefully get us on top of managing the virus inline with the other states.

The numbers of new cases for the week Monday 28th September to Sunday 4th October in Victoria were; 4, 9, 11, 14, 8, 6 and 12 for a total of 64 new cases. Total deaths for the week was 12. There was an outbreak at Chadstone shopping centre related to a family outbreak in Frankston, which has attributed to many of those new cases.

As the weather really warmed up at the end of the week many people went out to St Kilda beach and were not following social distancing and many did not have masks. It is really frustrating and disappointing to be so close to officially having restrictions eased that a number of selfish people would put that at risk. Is the idea of a relatively free summer worth a few nights of stupidity?

The biggest COVID related news of the week by far was the president of the Unites States of America, Donald Trump testing positive. With a month to go before the election it is crazy news. The implications of what could happen are mind boggling and who knows what effect it might have on the results. If Trump does recover well from the virus he will be able to use it to his advantage inline with his rhetoric on the virus just being the flu and the USA should re-open and just get on with it.

Not many great photos this week, the skies were either mostly grey or clear with not many clouds of good definition. One interesting capture was a helicopter which just looked like a black helicopter when I took the photo with closer inspection revealing it was a police helicopter.