Covid 19.

[Sandy]

Day 17 of our level 4 lockdown and as of 1.00 p.m. yesterday we had about 1,320 cases of Covid 19 here, some 700 folk have now recovered from Covid 19.. Sadly we had 2 more deaths yesterday, one was from a rest home in Christchurch where all 22 of the residents had got Covid 19, the gentleman that died in hospital was in his mid 80's, the other death was in Wellington Hospital, that man was in his mid 70's, so that makes 4 deaths to date.. Like most folk I'm hoping the other 20 elderly folk from the rest home will recover, it was really sad to think that someone took the Covid 19 into the rest home, whether it was staff or a visitor that took Covid in to a rest home, the person or people should've known better than to go in if they had any symptoms, or thought they may have symptoms of Covid 19 seeing the early symptoms have beem well advertised here and everyone knows the elderly are at risk because of their ages..

Our daily figures are still dropping, we were getting up to 90 new cases a day, we're now down to in the 20's as far as new cases go, so as far as I know we're still on track for the government dropping us from level 4 down to level 3 on 22 April, hopefully the new case figures continue to drop here..

I saw on the online news yesterday that the deaths in the US had spiked to over 2000 in a 24 hour period, while I feel for all those folk and their families I'm thankful our government acted as quickly as they did and got some tough rules in place, I don't personally agree with everything our government has done, but to date we've been a bit better off than othe countries are or have been.. I'm not a religious person, but I hope to goodness things improve for those worse affected really soon..