Covid 19.

[Sandy]

It's day 19 of our lockdown and as of 1.00 p.m. yesterday we had 1,342 cases of Covid 19 here, my figure of 700 recovered was incorrect yesterday, it should've been 560 recovered as of yesterday.. We've sadly had another death bringing the total to 5 people, this latest death was the third person from a rest home in Christchurch, there was 22 elderly residents there, all have been transferred to hospital, it seems the staff have been affected, there was some 13 staff who tested positive for Covid 19 out of the 18 suspected cases among the staff in that rest home, so it looks like the staff may have continued going to work despite not feeling well, sad considering the elderly fok they were looking after were at risk because of their ages, many also had pre existing health problems due to their age..

Most folk seem to be being pretty responsible and are only going out if absolutely necessary, like for groceries, to see their doctor or to pick up any medications they may be on.. The supermarkets here are limiting the amount of people instore at any one time in order to reduce the risk of spreading Covid 19 to staff and other shoppers, so far the folk in the ques waiting to go in for groceries have been pretty good on the most part, with only a few complaining about the wait, surprisingly the few that have complained don't work, so aren't necessarily in a hurry to be elsewhere..

Our government is still looking at 22 April as the day we drop back to level 3 seeing the number of new cases is continuing to drop each day, as of yesterday we had 18 new cases which were a mix of 13 confirmed and 5 unconfirmed cases which is the lowest it's been sibce we went on to level 4, if most current cases are better and we have no new cases by 22 April we may drop to level 3, it sounds lke if we drop a level a lot of the level 4 rules may still apply which IMHO is a good idea..