'This is the last gasp of the virus': Victorian Chief Medical Officer Brett Sutton says the new COVID-19 case numbers show 'an ongoing slow and steady decline', describing it as 'some light at the end of a very long tunnel'.
Of 1,956 active cases in the state, 286 are healthcare workers, Mr Andrews said on Saturday.
"If you opened at these levels ... it would be five minutes of sunshine and then a third wave that arguably will be even more devastating than the second." "It's both the response within those settings, so making sure that it doesn't spread amongst residents, it doesn't spread amongst staff, and it doesn't go between staff and residents.
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