Victoria’s chief health officer has explained why he’s standing firm on keeping Melbourne’s shopping precincts shut for a long time.
While announcing 41 new infections and nine more deaths on Monday morning, Professor Brett Sutton said keeping retail precincts closed would play a crucial role in controlling transmission of coronavirus.
“So I’m sure transmissions is occurring and that’s been the consideration in terms of just bringing down the volume and the movement of people in those tens, hundreds of thousands, that we know retail occurs.” “We’d have an awful lot more than that. We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that France has 25,000 cases in the last three days. Spain who opened up about 100, 200 cases a day, they’re at the 8000, 9000, 10,000 cases a day. The UK, 64 per cent increase in daily cases from yesterday to today.
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