On the worst day of Victoria’s outbreak, a vow made by chief health officer Brett Sutton during last year’s lockdown has backfired on him.
, there could be as many as 1834 daily cases – higher than anything NSW has reported in its latest outbreak.
“I suspect that [the numbers will] go up substantially over the coming weeks and we’ll see quite a lot of hospitalisations, which is a bit scary.” “Even as late as yesterday we are still finding cases where entire households are positive when the first person has come forward to be tested and where adjoining household families are all positive at the same time,” he said.
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