The Business Council of Australia is demanding an end to Melbourne’s stage four in less than two weeks
with shops, factories and warehouses to open their doors again on September 14.
"Everything is on the table," Mr Andrews said, insisting that the road map out of Melbourne’s toughest ever restrictions had still not been drawn up and that the plan for opening up the city and the state, to be announced on Sunday, was still to be finalised.
The research company reported that support is still strong for key aspects of the government’s present COVID-19 response with most of those surveyed still in favour of the night-time curfew, the five-kilometre travel limit and 87 per cent of respondents supporting the mandatory face mask policy. The plan also lists for the first time criteria for moving into new stages based on daily case numbers, suggesting stage two would only be activated once average daily case numbers were consistently below five.
The draft also advocates a “go outside” message, used effectively in Scotland and New York, that discourage gatherings in private homes where there is a “up to a 20-fold greater risk of virus transmission”.
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