NSW/VIC
NSW records 224 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate increases to 1.0274 (from 0.9958) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend line which is trending upward again.
VIC records 1,064 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate increases to 0.9989 (from 0.9858) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend.
Week 17 in Victoria ended today with
80,232 cases to date compared to
19,870 at the same point of the 2020 outbreak (which was down to ~20 cases a day at this point) and
65,721 for the NSW 2021 outbreak. Weekly case numbers see Victoria with more than twice as many cases as NSW last week but overall case numbers are down below those of the last few weeks for both States. Note that we are comparing historical data for NSW with current data for Victoria as NSW is about 3.5 weeks ahead.