Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says there has been a “secret change in strategy” in Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ approach to managing the coronavirus.
“Effectively the Victorian government adopted a strategy of elimination,” he told Sky News. In Victoria’s newly released roadmap to recovery, the Andrews government requires the state to record zero cases for a 28-day period in order to transition to a COVID normal level of function. “Why would you be going for that target when we’ve all been saying we should be flattening the curve and we need to get our health system up to scratch”.
Mr Canavan said Victoria’s roadmap to recovery was “kind of friendless” and was not being backed by most public experts or the business community in the state. The Nationals Senator said the Victorian Premier needed to explain “why he has chosen certain thresholds” and he needed to release the modelling supporting his plan. “It just seems completely crazy to set these very low thresholds before people can get out and about in Victoria”.
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