WEEKLY COVID NUMBERS

From 19 May - 25 May, Victoria recorded:  

10,642 (+15%) total cases for the past week
9 COVID deaths on average each day over the past week
407 cases in hospital (7 day rolling average) with 17 in ICU (7 day rolling average)

Cumulatively this equals: 7,779 Victorian COVID deaths (up 59 from last week) with 2,935,299 cases having recovered

You can check the Victorian weekly update here

Australia: As of 22 May, there have been 11,585,286 cases and 20,879 COVID deaths

World: As of 22 May, there had been 689,524,261 worldwide infections with COVID-related deaths numbering 6,884,571 (Source: Worldometer)

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