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Australian National University’s Professor Peter Collignon says if Victoria wants to get on top of its COVID-19 crisis its residents need to focus on basic COVID-19 safety precautions.

03/08/2020 All non-essential businesses in Metropolitan Melbourne will be shut from Thursday under tough new restrictions aimed at driving COVID-19 cases in the state. More than 400 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in Victoria in the past 24 hours while 13 more people died.

“We do need to do all these lockdowns and get people restricted from their movement, but if we don’t get the fundamentals right … we’ll still have a problem,” Mr Collignon told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “We’re going to have to work out how do we get this reproduction number less than one, and you might remember in March and April, every city in Australia managed to do that even before any lockdowns.

 

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Anything about following rules on mask wearing and following the law?

There are many minority people in this country that never grew up with Personal hygiene and still don't, when you witness one,holding her child above a Gutter in a shopping centre street, so it can Shit in the street, they need to leave!!!!!!or other's that do No 2 and not wash

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And stay away from silly ideas of Andrew Bolt, Mark Latham and like.

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