Premier Daniel Andrews is expected to tell Victorians how and when he will remove the many restrictions on daily life, as modelling predicts Stage Four restrictions may remain in place until mid-October.
Victoria has recorded 63 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours and five more deaths, with Premier Daniel Andrews set to reveal the state's roadmap out of lockdown on Sunday.
But modelling produced by experts from the universities of Melbourne and New England and reported by the ABC paints a bleak picture.Melbourne entered Stage Four restrictions in August for six weeks, with the public told the measures would hold until 13 September.The government has already flagged that single people who live alone may be soon permitted to have a visitor as concerns have grown about the mental health effects of prolonged social isolation.
Many Melburnians cling to the premier's daily reports of the figures, for signs of the state's progress towards normality. "This is the last gasp of the virus and we need to work harder than maybe we've ever done before to make sure that that last gasp is, indeed, the last one," Prof Sutton said on Saturday.
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