The situation in Victoria is looking extremely good, but a Melbourne epidemiologist said there needed to be three weeks between steps, and the earliest we could possibly move to step three would be October 19.
Professor Blakely said the numbers in recent days were "very encouraging".
The curfew between 9:00pm and 5:00am and the the limit on people travelling more than five kilometres from home will remain in place in the second step,Childcare and early education will reopen and there will be a phased return to face-to-face learning for prep to grade two, VCE and VCAL students and specialist schools in term four.The trigger for that is for the 14-day daily new case average to be below five, and have fewer than five "mystery" cases over a two-week period.
"It may be just a little too late for that now. It might take too much logistics to set that up," he said."So if we release on the 28th of September as planned, probably the earliest we could pull the 26th of October back is to something like the 19th of October," he said."I doubt they're having much effect at the margin," he said.
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