As the rest of the country loosens restrictions, Melburnians are headed for another six weeks in lockdown, but scientists say there's good reason for it to be so long.
"The incubation we think, for most people, is less than one week but the public health guidelines say that you should consider exposures up to a fortnight," Dr Yarwood said."All the transmissions reported today happened a week ago," he said.Experts said the lockdown was necessary as the rising cases in Victoria were due to community transmission of the virus and not from returned travellers coming back from overseas.
It means hundreds of people may now have it — potentially passing it on to others — but not test positive until next week, or even the week after.
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