Melburnians are on track to move to the second step of eased restrictions at the end of September, but Premier Daniel Andrews says it's 'highly unlikely' numbers will allow an earlier introduction to the third step slated for October 26 | Ash_McMillan
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. The regional average is 4.1.
"If you look at today's number and they fluctuate a little bit every day, but we are looking at the 40 [new case] mark now, so if you project forward 14 days you would expect that that 14-day rolling average to the end of September will be absolutely no more than 40 and more likely to be within 20 and 30 I would hope," Professor Sutton said.
He said it remained "difficult to get on top of transmission" within aged care, despite the lowered daily cases in the state. Six of the seven deaths reported on Sunday morning were connected to aged care. Professor Bennett, who has previously criticised Premier Daniel Andrews’ road map out of lockdown, welcomed the shift in the government's language.
– which currently would require cases to fall to fewer than five a day over 14 days, and fewer than five mystery cases over 14 days.
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