The 14-day case average in metropolitan Melbourne has dropped below 50 today, paving the way for further restrictions to be eased in less than two weeks. 9News
The average now sits at 49.6 cases in metropolitan Melbourne and 3.5 in regional Victoria, as the state recorded 42 new COVID-19 infections and eight deaths overnight.
The threshold means Melbourne will only proceed to step two of reopening if the city maintains a 14-day average daily case rate of between 30 and 50 by September 28.Premier Daniel Andrews has suggested it would be possible for restrictions to be eased sooner if deemed safe but emphasised the city's roadmap out of lockdown could not be rushed.
"We will take steps as quickly as we can from a safety point of view and from that sense of certainty that what we're doing doesn't throw away everything that Metropolitan Melburnians have done for months now," he told reporters yesterday. "We know it's tough. It'll be done as quick and as concisely as it can be done. But we're not going to be pressured into doing something that is fundamentally unsafe."
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