Acting Premier James Merlino said he expects restrictions to ease on Friday. COVID19 9News
today, with the government maintaining it would consider easing lockdown measures on a "day-by-day" basis.
Lockdown restrictions are set to remain in place until Thursday night, with Deputy Chief Health Officer Professor Allen Cheng explaining the relaxing of measures would be a "day-by-day proposition"."If we can, we will lift it early - but at this stage, our expectation is that it will continue to Thursday."
Professor Sutton could not confirm how an eased lockdown would look ahead of the Queen's Birthday weekend."It's frustrating. People want to know what things will look like three days from now. Before case numbers were announced today, Professor Sharon Lewin from the Peter Doherty Institute said she was "pretty optimistic" restrictions would ease."We're not identifying new chains of transmission.
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