Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced he will reveal a road map out of lockdown on Sunday, but has not revealed any further details, saying the figures until then were ''critically important''
While Mr Andrews said it was too early to "settle that road map", he hinted that restrictions would begin with an outlook for industry and that health authorities would be analysing data throughout the week.
The deaths include three men and four women in their 70s, seven men and ten women in their 80s, three men and thirteen women in their 90s and one woman in her 100s. At least 37 of the newly-published deaths are linked to aged care outbreaks.Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the backlog of aged care deaths belatedly reported on Monday was due to amended reporting obligations and inconsistencies between state and federal reporting methods.
Some aged care homes may still need to report a few historical deaths, but Professor Sutton said he did not expect "anywhere near" the same numbers reported on Monday. "But there is an enormous amount of work going on, modelling scenarios being run through various supercomputers ... and we will be in a position to be able to share that road map, what it will look like, its various components and phases, with the community on Sunday," he said."I am deeply, deeply grateful to every single Victorian who is staying the course, who is making their own personal contribution to a strategy that is defeating this virus. We will defeat this second wave.
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