Victoria's Chief Health Officer said that when it comes to moving to the next stage in the road map out of lockdown, he and his colleagues are placing greater weight on the 'story' behind each diagnosis, rather than the number of infections, writes ...
Over the long months of Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19 infections, Melburnians' spirits have soared or slumped with each day's release of case numbers.
He said the raw daily case numbers were now less important for the big-picture decisions than the origin of each individual infection and whether it could be tracked and traced."It’s the most prominent criteria," he said. "We will absolutely look to those mystery cases in particular and those sporadic ... individual community cases which are often mystery cases."
"We want to get below five, but [if] it’s above five and the great majority of those cases are known, contained, linked and we’re confident about the control measures in place, then we might accept that as a threshold for a move to another stage," he said.
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