COVID WEEKLY STATS

From 7 July - 13 July, Victoria recorded: 

543 (-33%)* total cases for the past week
6 COVID deaths on average each day over the past week
137 cases in hospital (7 day rolling average) with 8 in ICU (7 day rolling average)

*The recommendation to report positive rapid antigen test result was removed on 30 June, so new cases include PCR test results only from 1 July.

Cumulatively this equals: 8,189 Victorian COVID deaths (up 39 from last week) with 2,968,234 cases having recovered. You can check the Victorian weekly update here.

Australia: As of 18 July, there have been 11,718,384 cases and 22,060 COVID deaths
World: As of 18 July, there had been 691,684,315 worldwide infections with COVID-related deaths numbering 6,899,861 (Source: Worldometer)

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