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| Coronavirus Australia live update: premier Daniel Andrews holds press conference as Victoria records 28 new Covid cases | Coronavirus Australia live update: premier Daniel Andrews holds press conference as Victoria records 28 new Covid cases |
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| Covid-19 restrictions ease in regional Victoria today as economists and international students call for expansion of jobkeeper. Follow all today’s news | Covid-19 restrictions ease in regional Victoria today as economists and international students call for expansion of jobkeeper. Follow all today’s news |
| Q: The Prime Minister made comments he is grateful that regional Victoria is opening up and he thinks we should be opening up earlier. Are you taking that on board, at all? | |
| Daniel Andrews: | |
| Will Victoria start taking returned travellers again anytime soon? | |
| Daniel Andrews: | |
| On the no confidence motion the opposition plans to move against him, Daniel Andrews says: | |
| Deputy chief health officer, Professor Allen Cheng then addresses the modelling again: | |
| Q: A lot I think the main concern is getting to the five average and the zero average, and I think even the modellers have said that is extreme. I mean, crikey, is that even possible? If a household gets sick, you’re going to have five cases. | |
| Cheng: | |
| Who was on the Victorian modelling committee and who choose those people? | |
| Daniel Andrews: | |
| How long will Victorians be required to wear masks? | |
| Daniel Andrews: | |
| If you are allowed to travel to regional Victoria, what are the rules? | |
| Daniel Andrews: | |
| On the new $5000 fine for people caught entering regional Victoria without a lawful excuse, Daniel Andrews says: | |
| Daniel Andrews on the lag between going for a covid test and getting a result: | |
| Daniel Andrews on the modelling - and how the government and advisors are also looking at the real time data: | |
| Q: Just on the consultations, I was pleased to hear that you met with supermarket heads this week. | |
| Daniel Andrews: I did. | |
| Q: I think there’s been 150 briefings with industry before the roadmap was released. | |
| Andrews: Something like that. | |
| Q: How many were you at? | |
| Andrews: Those matters have been appropriately delegated to the Minister for jobs and industry recovery. I’ve got one or two other things to get on with, so... | |
| Q: I guess, if you were fighting a fire, you would get out there, you would talk to people on the front line, you would talk to healthcare workers, business owners... | |
| Andrews: I’m very pleased that you have taken that to that analogy the fact is - I didn’t go to too many town hall meetings during the fires, I left that to those who were in charge of the operational response just like they haven’t necessarily been spending all of my time. I lead a big team, a capable team and they have engaged with industry in unprecedented terms. | |
| That’s not to say, though, if I could be so bold as to point this out, consultation and getting the answer you wanted are not always the same thing. You can be listened to, and people have been, but that doesn’t mean that everybody gets exactly what they want. Many would like us to open up yesterday. | |
| Q: Sure, I get that. Some business owners have told me that they were told by ministers the zero case strategy had been decided before consultation began. | |
| Andrews: That’s not accurate in any way. There have been detailed consultation that we will continue to have consultations, they have informed our decision-making. For instance, if you look at regional Victoria, I think most restaurant is, publicans, cafe owners didn’t expect that there would be able to be 20 patrons inside, that came from feedback as well as detailed public health advice. | |
| ...I think went into this in some detail the other day, essentially we will be guided by the numbers and the narrative behind those numbers in the circumstances behind those numbers and it is too early to be able to predict where we’re going to be next week let alone multiple weeks time. | |
| Q: What else can you tell us about clusters? How many links are aware of other than that they are all in Casey, and are we talking workplaces or family groups? | Q: What else can you tell us about clusters? How many links are aware of other than that they are all in Casey, and are we talking workplaces or family groups? |
| Allen Cheng: We are still looking into that, we do think that there are links and they are obviously all in that area. There’s a number of households they are, but I think, we are looking into that and trying to find out where everyone has been so we can make sure the transmission chains are controlled. | Allen Cheng: We are still looking into that, we do think that there are links and they are obviously all in that area. There’s a number of households they are, but I think, we are looking into that and trying to find out where everyone has been so we can make sure the transmission chains are controlled. |
| Q: Why is it taking so long to establish that? | Q: Why is it taking so long to establish that? |
| Cheng: We have 10 new cases in Casey five days ago. We are talking to people all the time and we go back and talk to them again, make sure that it is nothing we have missed, so if you think of, where have you been in the last 14 days and who have you talked to, you know, did you meet this person on that day or the day after, how long did you talk to them, all these things often can take a while and certainly I am not doing contact tracing but when I have spoken to patients it isn’t always easy to get the story out the first time, they have to go back into their phonebook and work out where they have been and who they have been talking to. | Cheng: We have 10 new cases in Casey five days ago. We are talking to people all the time and we go back and talk to them again, make sure that it is nothing we have missed, so if you think of, where have you been in the last 14 days and who have you talked to, you know, did you meet this person on that day or the day after, how long did you talk to them, all these things often can take a while and certainly I am not doing contact tracing but when I have spoken to patients it isn’t always easy to get the story out the first time, they have to go back into their phonebook and work out where they have been and who they have been talking to. |