Daniel Andrews has hit back after a leading epidemiologist blasted the Victorian Government’s coronavirus 5km rule, saying there’s no epidemiological reason people should remain within such a radius.
While announcing 10 new infections and seven more deaths, the Premier said he did not wish to get involved in a modelling debate.
“With the greatest of respect to Catherine Bennett, she’s not the chief health officer,” he told reporters on Tuesday morning.
“She can have views, lots of views. I’ve got to say to you I’m not getting into this modelling debate again. I’m just not. We’ve got a series of decisions that have been made. This strategy is working. The numbers are coming down, and there are aggregate benefits from each of the measures we’ve taken.
“That doesn’t mean that every health (inaudible), every person from public health across the world would necessarily agree with every decision we’ve made, but you have to call these things and that’s what we’ve done.”
Deakin University epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett on Tuesday morning said the State Government’s 5km rule had no epidemiological basis.
But Mr Andrews said “movement means virus”.
“It‘s as simple as that. It’s about reducing movement. That’s what stay-at-home orders are all about,” he said.
“That’s what just about every single one of the measures we’ve put in place – it’s about reducing movement. If you’ve got more virus out there than you know, and that’s a product of the fact that any person with symptoms gets tested.”
The state’s death toll is now 794, but consistently low virus numbers mean Melbourne’s crucial 14-day average is below 20, at 18.2.
If cases remain low, the Premier expects Melbourne to take the third step on the state’s COVID-19 recovery road map on October 19, a week earlier than originally scheduled.
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2020-09-29 02:02:04Z
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