Melburnians may need to wear masks on public transport and in other busy public spaces until there is a widely available vaccine for coronavirus
"New Zealand did it and they haven't had community transmission in 70 days. This is a virus, it's not a supernatural zombie. It transmits between people so you need to separate people."
"Given that we’ve already gone into a lockdown in Melbourne, we should turn something that depresses us into an an opportunity. In the six weeks of hard lockdown we could actually achieve elimination." "The risk elimination creates is a false sense of security that may diminish the community engagement with widespread testing and lead to a downsizing of the enhanced public health response, based on an assumption “we have got rid of the virus once and for all in our part of the world”.
"Elimination won’t be a golden answer to your economic woes, especially in a country like New Zealand or Australia that relies on tourism," he said. Five cases have been liked to Steel Mains, a steel fabrication business in Somerton, and four cases have been linked to Waste Equipment and Hiab Services in Ardeer.
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