Premier DanielAndrewsMP may have good news for regional Victoria today, depending what the latest coronavirus case numbers are.
He said there would be little notice of any changes, adding: "That is preferable [to] making people wait for another week or so."
There were 35 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and seven more deaths, all of which were linked to aged care. The 14-day average for new cases dipped to 54.4 in metropolitan Melbourne and 3.9 in regional Victoria. Professor Sutton said work on five suburban contact tracing hubs, announced last week, was under way. He said the government was speaking with local GPs, hospitals and community medical centres, but it was "not a matter to rush".
"Professor Sutton is correctly conservative – we have seen other countries that have eased restrictions and then gone back to having a spike in cases," she said."I think we need to be really confident when we go to the next stage. We don't want to go into a situation like Sydney where we are putting out spot fires for 2½ months," he said.
Greater Geelong mayor Stephanie Asher said hospitality businesses would be rapt with a move to outdoor dining.
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