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2.57am BST
Andrews indicates it could be until next weekend before we know how the restrictions will ease in Melbourne on 28 September.
The way this works is that the public health team provide their advice and they will provide early advice and then they will add to their advice, and again, we have made the point very clearly that modelling is very important, but the actual data, case numbers every day, the investigations, the narrative that sits behind each those numbers, but is really important.
So you would make a decision is significant is that, as close to the time that it came into effect. The decision-making process is not, I wish it were, but it is not one meeting. And it is not one person. They will be a bunch of us who all sit down together, take advice, that advice will develop and unfold throughout the week. That is one of the very difficult parts about this virus.
2.51am BST
Andrews is again asked why the Casey and Dandenong families who broke the rules and got Covid-19 didn’t get fined. Andrews said while it might make others feel better, it wouldn’t be useful for contact tracing.
Well, any sense of satisfaction that we might collectively get by these people getting find would be very short-lived. Because ultimately what is most important is getting the information out of them, and people feeling that they can be frank and honest and truthful.
As I said, if you went back to the 20,000 plus interviews we have done over the last year, through the course of those interviews, people will have made admissions, large and small, about their conduct. And the value of that information far exceeds any fine.
Continue reading…Number of cases worldwide passes 30 million; Victoria announces 21 new Covid-19 cases and seven more deaths; UK faces possible second national lockdown. Follow all the developmentsMutant virus: should we be worried that Sars-CoV-2 is changing ?UK entering second wave of virus, Johnson warns‘Shocking’: Trump under fire from ex-adviser for Covid failures 2.57am BSTAndrews indicates it could be until next weekend before we know how the restrictions will ease in Melbourne on 28 September.The way this works is that the public health team provide their advice and they will provide early advice and then they will add to their advice, and again, we have made the point very clearly that modelling is very important, but the actual data, case numbers every day, the investigations, the narrative that sits behind each those numbers, but is really important. So you would make a decision is significant is that, as close to the time that it came into effect. The decision-making process is not, I wish it were, but it is not one meeting. And it is not one person. They will be a bunch of us who all sit down together, take advice, that advice will develop and unfold throughout the week. That is one of the very difficult parts about this virus. 2.51am BSTAndrews is again asked why the Casey and Dandenong families who broke the rules and got Covid-19 didn’t get fined. Andrews said while it might make others feel better, it wouldn’t be useful for contact tracing.Well, any sense of satisfaction that we might collectively get by these people getting find would be very short-lived. Because ultimately what is most important is getting the information out of them, and people feeling that they can be frank and honest and truthful. As I said, if you went back to the 20,000 plus interviews we have done over the last year, through the course of those interviews, people will have made admissions, large and small, about their conduct. And the value of that information far exceeds any fine. Continue reading…