Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced he will reveal a road map out of lockdown on Sunday, but has not revealed any further details, saying the figures until then were ''critically important''.
Victoria has recorded 73 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours as the number of deaths skyrocketed to 41, due to the delayed reporting of 22 deaths in aged care.
During a press conference on Monday, Mr Andrews said it was too early to ''settle that road map'' and that health authorities would be analysing data throughout the week.
"Another week's data is critically important to make sure that the strategy continues to work and for us to have a better sense of how long it will take to drive these numbers down to very, very low numbers so that they can be contained uncontrolled without the need to put restrictions back on over not just weeks and months.
"That is the aim, and that is what the strategy is working towards."
According to the Health Department, the deaths announced on Monday include people who died in the weeks leading up to 27 August and were reported to the department by aged care facilities on Sunday.
It is the highest number of deaths published by the department on a single day.
There have been revisions made to the state's total coronavirus death toll in the past (for example, earlier this month one death had previously been counted twice by mistake), but this is the first time the state's death toll from coronavirus has been revised up to such an extent.
Higher number of deaths due to reporting inconsistencies
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the backlog of aged care deaths belatedly reported on Monday was due to amended reporting obligations and inconsistencies between state and federal reporting methods.
Despite the tragic deaths, Professor Sutton said the lower daily caseload was “good news” and consistent with the government’s modelling which he said showed the state was on a “good track”.
He said some of the 41 deaths recorded today - 33 of which did not occur in the past 24 hours - happened as far back as late July.
Some homes may still need to report a few historical deaths but Professor Sutton said he did not expect “anywhere near” the same backlog reported on Monday.
“All of these deaths have been known to the facility. They've of course been known to the families of those residents," he said."It is heartbreaking to see a number of that magnitude … It is a reflection of just how vulnerable those populations are."
Premier to reveal the plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions
Mr Andrews said there was no economic benefit to pushing a plan ''too fast'' and then being forced back into restrictions.
"Modelling scenarios being run through various supercomputers; there is an enormous amount of work going on, and we will be in a position to be able to share that roadmap, what it will look like its various components and phases, with the community on Sunday,'' he said.
"It cannot be 100 per cent certain, because everything must be based on case numbers.
"I am deeply, deeply grateful to every single Victorian who is staying the course, who is making their own personal contribution to a strategy that is defeating this virus. We will defeat this second wave."
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Paul is a reporter for The Age.
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