COVID-19 LATEST NUMBERS
On Tuesday 18th of October Victoria recorded:
1,087 new daily infections
12 COVID deaths
143 hospitalisations, and 8 are in ICU.
Cumulatively this equals:
2,633,804 total Victorian infections
5,770 Victorian COVID deaths (an increase of 39 since last week)
Australia: As of the 11th of October, there have been a total of 10,311,612 COVID cases (an increase of 68,417since last week) and 15,487 deaths (an increase of 259 since last week).
World: As of 11th October, there had been 630,310,824 worldwide infections (627,018,251 last week). The number of official COVID-related deaths is now 6,572,808 (Source: Worldometer).
VACCINATION UPDATE
94.3% of all eligible Victorians (16+), as of 11th October, have received their second dose, 95.4% their first dose. For the third dose the figure is 70.0% (16+).
The figure for all eligible Australians (16+), for the same date is First Dose 97.2%, Second Dose 95.8%, the third dose 69.1% and the fourth dose 23.9% (16+).