'We're looking more and we're finding cases, that gives us confidence that we are being very successful in terms of suppressing this virus'
A man in his 80s has died in hospital, bringing Victoria's death toll from coronavirus to 15.
But he said the state would need to "stay the course" on current social distancing measures for that to become a reality."On Friday there were 3522 tests that were conducted," he said. "That's a big increase on the numbers we were doing when we were much more focused on returning travellers and the close contacts of returning travellers.
But Chief Nursing Officer Alison McMillan said it was a ‘‘ambitious’’ to suggest COVID-19 could be eradicated. Meanwhile, the federal government will be able to allocate more protective face masks to healthcare workers after receiving an earlier-than-expected shipment of 58 million protective face masks.
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