Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman says Victoria should format its roadmap to recovery on the criteria used by NSW given the successful management of the coronavirus by the Berejiklian government.
“If we had the type of criteria being used by the Victorian government in places in NSW, then NSW would be somewhere between stage two and stage three lockdowns,” he told Sky News.
“What NSW has so effectively demonstrated is you don’t have to persist with those types of extreme lockdowns if you’ve got the tracing and management systems in place to be able to cope with low levels of community transmission”. Labor MP Peter Khalil noted “the only place I can think of that had a similarly strict suppression strategy … which almost looked like elimination was New Zealand”.
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