WEEKLY COVID NUMBERS

From 8 September – 14 September, Victoria recorded: 

746 (+28%) total cases for the past week
3 COVID deaths on average each day over the past week
133 cases in hospital (7 day rolling average) with 9 in ICU (7 day rolling average)

Cumulatively this equals: 8,431 Victorian COVID deaths (up 19 from last week) with 2,973,440 cases having recovered. You can check the Victorian weekly update here.

Australia: As of 19 September, there have been 11,764,239 cases and 22,727 COVID deaths

World: As of 5 September, there had been 695,437,400 worldwide infections with COVID-related deaths numbering 6,916,337 (Source: Worldometer)

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