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| Coronavirus Australia live update: Daniel Andrews says 'now is the time to open up' after Victoria records no Covid cases | Coronavirus Australia live update: Daniel Andrews says 'now is the time to open up' after Victoria records no Covid cases |
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| From midnight tomorrow night Melbourne businesses will be able to start reopening as restrictions ease. Follow all the latest updates | From midnight tomorrow night Melbourne businesses will be able to start reopening as restrictions ease. Follow all the latest updates |
| Should people be worried about a third wave, or whether or not the state will shut down again (and with it their business)? | |
| Daniel Andrews: | |
| DHHS has updated its exposure sites: | |
| You must continue to wear masks, Daniel Andrews says, and if you can work from home, you have to work from home. | |
| Life isn’t going back to how it was in January. | |
| Can Victorians be assured there won’t be a third wave? | |
| Daniel Andrews: | |
| Daniel Andrews comes back: | |
| Jeroen Weimar: | |
| Jeroen Weimar continues: | |
| Jeroen Weimar on the confusion with one of the letters – he says there was a lot of communication, and it was not just one letter: | |
| Jeroen Weimar, who was put in charge of the contact tracing response, is brought to the podium by Daniel Andrews, after a question on the confusion the family who inadvertently sent their Covid-positive child to school said they encountered, over DHHS advice. | |
| Q: Your family has met the Department of Health and Human Services criteria for families in isolation. It does not say that some are free to be released and some are not, it says your family has met the criteria. Who has got it wrong here and why can’t you guys just admit that DHHS got it wrong? | |
| Weimar: | |
| Daniel Andrews has very strenuously defended the state’s contact tracing system, as it has now been built. | |
| Asked about how confident he is in Victoria’s contact tracing team, Daniel Andrews says: | Asked about how confident he is in Victoria’s contact tracing team, Daniel Andrews says: |
| On the question of why there is a delay in announcing the in-home rules, Daniel Andrews says: | On the question of why there is a delay in announcing the in-home rules, Daniel Andrews says: |
| Daniel Andrews says the delay in announcing the at-home rules (you’ll be able to visit each other from midnight tomorrow, but you won’t find out how until tomorrow morning) is because they are working on a “simple” model, which is also effective. | Daniel Andrews says the delay in announcing the at-home rules (you’ll be able to visit each other from midnight tomorrow, but you won’t find out how until tomorrow morning) is because they are working on a “simple” model, which is also effective. |
| Q: What does it mean to you to be able to say zero cases? | Q: What does it mean to you to be able to say zero cases? |
| Daniel Andrews: | Daniel Andrews: |
| For those who can’t see, Daniel Andrews is wearing the North Face jacket. | For those who can’t see, Daniel Andrews is wearing the North Face jacket. |
| Q: Can I confirm you are saying we can finally get on the beers? | Q: Can I confirm you are saying we can finally get on the beers? |
| Daniel Andrews: | Daniel Andrews: |
| (pause) | (pause) |
| Q: Is this quite emotional for you? | Q: Is this quite emotional for you? |
| Andrews: | Andrews: |
| I’ve said it before – but Daniel Andrews is very, very emotional in this press conference. | I’ve said it before – but Daniel Andrews is very, very emotional in this press conference. |
| There is a lot of pressure being released here. | There is a lot of pressure being released here. |
| Andrews: | Andrews: |
| The rest of Australia has no idea how Victorians feel or what they went through. | The rest of Australia has no idea how Victorians feel or what they went through. |
| The federal Victorian MPs and the journalists have also had a dose of normality to their lives – travel was allowed for work. | |
| For the vast majority of Victorians, and in particular those in Melbourne, this has been something those of us on the outside can never truly understand. | |
| I am so happy for you Victoria. And proud. And to those in Melbourne who went through an even longer lockdown, I salute you. What you went through – and why – is not something we will forget. | |
| Daniel Andrews on the longer roadmap: | Daniel Andrews on the longer roadmap: |