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The decision to extend some of the strictest current coronavirus controls in the world will put further pressure on the state's businesses, strain already frayed relations with the Morrison government and test the public support Mr Andrews has so far enjoyed during the pandemic.
The federal government and industry groups hit back at Victoria's road map out of the lockdown, warning the continuation of restrictions will have dire economic consequences and decimate already-struggling businesses. The Victorian Chamber of Commerce's Paul Guerra slammed the Premier's announcement as a "road to nowhere", and called on the government to improve its contact tracing efforts.
"If we do our contact tracing better than we did three months ago, the contact tracers may be able to hold the case count without it going up again as badly as our model suggests," he said. "I’m sick of lockdown, I want to get out of it too, but unfortunately if you come out of lockdown too early, too fast, the chance of the third wave by Christmas is pretty high – about 60 per cent.
On Sunday the state government released a breakdown of how the contact-tracing system – designed to track down the close contacts of people diagnosed with coronavirus – had improved over the past few months.
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