Victoria's average daily infection rate is on track to meet the government's target to lift restrictions under the next stage of its road map
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said that figure meant the 14 day average for daily new cases, a key measure for the lifting of the stage four lockdown, now sat at 56.9.
He said decisions on when metropolitan Melbourne will get to repeal certain restrictions "will be informed by what actually happens" with case numbers. "We did see a little flattening over the last few weeks. The drop-off rate seemed to slow down a bit, but it has picked up again these last few days, so that really is encouraging...to consolidate to being around the 30 mark and we can look forward to getting down into the 20s pretty soon."
"We've seen a lot of conversation over the week, though, so clearly these hard targets, the dates, they are all now under discussion," she said.
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