BREAKING: 'It was always going to get worse before it got better,' says Premier DanielAndrewsMP.
Premier Daniel Andrews prepared the state for even more bad news, saying on Friday that the numbers were likely to get worse before they got better.
Mr Andrews also formally advised residents in the Melbourne and Mitchell Shire lockdown zone to wear face masks outside their homes. "This increase in cases – particularly locally acquired cases, particularly those that are not related to known clusters – are a concern. "It will take a couple of incubation periods – even four incubation periods – to know when that is under control, hence the six-week lockdown," he said.Despite Melbourne's second lockdown, coronavirus cases are spreading outside the city's boundary, with a childcare centre in Ocean Grove shut down and a Bendigo council staff member testing positive.
By Thursday, Geelong had a total of six active cases. Unlike the Mornington Peninsula on the other side of the bay, Geelong is not included in Melbourne's lockdown zone. Meanwhile, a Woolworths store in Melbourne’s south-west was closed for urgent cleaning on Thursday night after a worker tested positive for coronavirus.
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