COVID Update: Daily cases rise in NSW and VIC

Today’s COVID cases have been released for NSW and Victoria.

There were 444 new locally acquired COVID cases recorded across NSW over the past 24 hours, along with four deaths:

NSW #COVID19 UPDATE – Wednesday 13 October 2021

In the 24-hour reporting period to 8pm last night:

– 90.8% of people aged 16+ have had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
– 75.2% of people aged 16+ have had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine
– 105,508 tests in the last 24 hours pic.twitter.com/EKpOWnUWpS

— NSW Health (@NSWHealth) October 12, 2021

Across Victoria, there were 1571 new COVID cases and 13 deaths:

Reported yesterday: 1,571 new local cases and 1 case acquired overseas.
– 38,072 vaccines administered
– 79,200 test results received
– Sadly, 13 people with COVID-19 have died

More later: https://t.co/OCCFTAchah#COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData pic.twitter.com/sAvebf8lrc

— VicGovDH (@VicGovDH) October 12, 2021

The next chart plots daily cases across both states:

Meanwhile, active cases are still rising across Victoria, but falling across NSW:

The percentage of tests across NSW over the past 24 hours that came back positive was only 0.423%, according to COVIDBaseAU:

By contrast, 1.985% of tests across Victoria came back positive:

NSW’s Reff remains below 1.0 at 0.76, which means cases should continue to fall, according to COVIDBaseAU:

By comparison, Victoria’s Reff remains slightly above 1.0 at 1.06, but is falling:

Victoria’s COVID outbreak is clearly much worse, but at least the situation is beginning to improve.