Victoria was on course for a COVID-19 catastrophe of 20,000 new daily infections by mid-August when the state government imposed its stage three restriction in early July.
Acting Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng said on Thursday that the rate of infections had been growing 10-fold every 10 days when the government stepped in to reimpose the lockdown and that without action, new cases might have reached 20,000 a day by August 12. Acting Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng provides an update on Wednesday as Premier Daniel Andrews looks on.The Monash University epidemiologist said he hoped to see the present rate of daily infections, which reached a record high of 725 on Wednesday, begin to drop in the coming days as the mandated use of face masks and the stage four lockdown announced on Sunday begin to take effect.
Despite avoiding a nightmare scenario of tens of thousands of daily cases, the present rate of daily infection was still "too high" the Deputy Chief Health Officer said but he hoped to see it begin to drop by early next week. "I don’t want to get into a number but I would hope it is substantially less than what it is now and we would start to see that start of next week," he said.Get our Coronavirus Update newsletter for the day's crucial developments at a glance, the numbers you need to know and what our readers are saying. Sign up to
Where's peter Sutton?
Nearly 4 weeks ago a dumb arse like myself was predicting where we were heading with covid in Vic-why couldn’t the ‘smart’ people? Had action been sooner would we really be up shit creek right now? DanielAndrewsMP VictorianCHO
It’s just as easy to say we dodged 10million cases, the fact is, this government and its health team has failed Victoria
I call BS
Nice to see this story finally get a run...3 days late and buried in the steaming pile of garbage you all call reporting.
Release the data. Show the model. Let the independent researchers confirm it. This is how the science works. Otherwise, it is just a propaganda.
Does anyone even bother to challenge these wild statistical predictions? In ten days at that rate, it would make Vic, per capita, the worst affected place on the planet at 40,000 cases per 1 million people. It was never ever going to happen so why keep scaring people?
If Liberals were in power in Victoria, they would have opened everything up months ago and by now we would have thousands of virus infections every day. Thank heavens for Dan Andrews.
MayneReport 20,000 cases a day?
Labor party spin puppet
As if.
I thought they predicted 150 000 deaths by now . These health bureaucrats are hopeless.
MayneReport So why didn't they just impose stage 4 if this was the case....
We live in a society where everyone expects the Government to do everything for them. How about people taking some responsibility and following the rules and stop being selfish.
Little good it did. Lockdown 3.0 and we are at 725 and 421 cases. FML FML FML FML
I smell bullshit
Oh yeah? We have heard it all before
What a load of horse sh*t. They haven't had a model anywhere near reality!
Basically the health department cannot leave patients at home with families if tested positive. Otherwise it will cause more family cluster cases.
Wow. They are now congratulating themselves. Speechless.
Just about to doze off and it went mad. Scared the shit out of me.
What's his view about Captain Cook?
Your inept idiots trying to save your 9NewsAUS scum backsides are you? Pathetic
Victoria was also on course to suppress Covid-19 until it was released back into the community through a string of Vic Govenment errors. Putting the fire out when you started it doesn’t make you a hero.
Garbage
We were also on course to getting close to no numbers prior to the hotel quarantine schmozzle... Like the rest of Australia is now
But why
About time this was reported
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