WEEKLY COVID NUMBERS

From 12 May - 18 May, Victoria recorded:  

9,316 (+24%) total cases for the past week
4 COVID deaths on average each day over the past week
327 cases in hospital (7 day rolling average) with 17 in ICU (7 day rolling average)

Cumulatively this equals: 7,720 Victorian COVID deaths (up 27 from last week) with 2,925,411 cases having recovered

You can check the Victorian weekly update here

Australia: As of 22 May, there have been 11,543,887 cases and 20,660 COVID deaths

World: As of 22 May, there had been 688,989,562 worldwide infections with COVID-related deaths numbering 6,880,332 (Source: Worldometer)

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