Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says the Government is reassessing the targets it has set as Melbourne's case average increased from 9.3 to 9.9 overnight.
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By Sophie Meixner
Can I wear a snood, a buff, or a gaiter as a face covering?
Just noticed DHHS have updated their advice on face masks to say that snood/buffs/gaiters are OK as long as they fit snugly. I know a lot of people on the blog have been asking www.dhhs.vic.gov.auwww.dhhs.vic.gov.au-Snoodle
Here is the relevant section:
By Sophie Meixner
How did the PM enter Queensland?
Just saw the Prime Minister at a press conference in Queensland - why is he not in quarantine?-Brent
He was in the ACT for 14 days prior to entering Queensland, per Queensland border requirements.
By Sophie Meixner
In Trump COVID news...
Twitter has slapped a warning on a post by US president Donald Trump, because he's claimed he's immune to COVID 19.
Mr Trump used Twitter to also say he'd been given the all clear from White House doctors, and was no longer contagious.
Twitter didn't take the tweet down, but put the warning on the message, saying it violates its policy about spreading misleading and potentially harmful imformation.
But there was no attempt to moderate Mr Trump's claims of immunity when he appeared on Fox News:
"I can go way out of a basement which I would've done anyway which I did, [because] you have to run a country," he said.
"You have to get out of the basement.
"It looks like I'm immune for I dunno... maybe a long time, maybe a short time, could be a lifetime, nobody really knows — but I'm immune."
By Sophie Meixner
Liverpool enters strictest tier of UK lockdown
Local government officials in the British city of Liverpool say it'll be entering the strictest tier of new anti-coronavirus restrictions.
City officials say Liverpool's pubs and bars, betting shops, casinos, gaming centres and gyms will be closed.
The tier-three measures are set out under a plan Prime Minister Boris Johnson will unveil tonight.
The UK is experiencing a surge in cases of Covid-19 and the new system represents a new phase in Britain's attempts to contain the virus.
By Sophie Meixner
Hello from Sophie
Now that Deano's slogged through all of the big events of the morning, I felt now was a great time to log on.
Hello! I'll be blogging for this arvo. I'm coming off a week of leave, so just hold on while I read through the last week's worth of coronavirus blogs to get myself up to date.
By Dean Bilton
It's over
Clock stops at 96 minutes for those playing at home. I need a lie down.
By Dean Bilton
James Merlino, Minister for Education, is here too
I think the Dan portion is over.
Mr Merlino (Deputy Premier too, btw), says the return to school has been a success today.
It's been a terrific day. The very first priority for schools will be on students' mental health and wellbeing, and then over the coming days and weeks it will be about assessments.
By Dean Bilton
Dan Andrews is asked why he signed up for answering every question, every day
A fair question.
I don't run from challenges. These days are not about me, they are about the information I provide. I'm not pleading for symapthy.
This is not an easy task, nothing about 2020 is easy for any single Victorian. There are people who have lost loved ones, there are people in dangerous situations, there are businesses that have closed.
I made a decision that this is one of the most challenging situations our state has faced, and the least I can do is front up every day.
By Dean Bilton
Dan Andrews on the potential fines for regional businesses
[The rules are] drafted in such a way that means 'take reasonable steps'. And that means they should take reasonable steps to ascertain whether every person they serve is from regional Victoria and is allowed to be there.
By Dean Bilton
Numbers from the top
Hi Dean, did Dan Andrews mention a) how many of today's cases are linked to outbreaks / complex cases or b) how many active cases there are currently across Victoria? Usually we get these figures right at the start of the presser...-H.
Yes, sorry, I've got a moment to hop back to those:
There are 191 active cases of coronavirus in Victoria. That is 15 new cases since my update yesterday.
Currently, 10 of these cases are provisionally linked to family clusters or known cases. They are currently being actively managed.
Contact tracing investigative workers is ongoing and we will provide further updates in the chief health officer's release later today.
By Dean Bilton
Dan Andrews is asked if he is willing to hand over his phone
He reiterates that he is.
We're happy to fully comply with the request that has been made. I don't use WhatsApp very much — I'll tell you who put me onto WhatsApp, Scott Morrison did. Because that's what the National Cabinet uses.
I don't see it as a problem, we're happy to hand over the lot. I am ambivalent, unconcerned.
By Dean Bilton
Will retail be reopening this weekend?
Probably not, says Dan Andrews.
No decision has been made on retail. And I think it's unlikely this thank this weekend there will be a big shift in terms of retail.
There are risks, not so much with the setting, the risk relates to movement.
By Dean Bilton
Dan Andrews on the Chadstone outbreak
He says he believes it is being handleed well.
The more we know and understand about this outbreak — public facilities in that transmission area has been where transmission area has been where transmission has occurred. That's my latest advice.
As I'm briefed I think this has been handled well. People had an understanding that how it had been open for business when it shouldn't have been.
It was closed twice. Because it was closed, there is what a deep clean, there was then — and this this is the key point — there was a double-check done to make sure that the deep clean had been to the appropriate standard. There was an issue with that clean, so it was closed again, cleaned again then it reopened.
That butcher shop, and all the other traders in that area, as well as centre management, have been nothing but closely working with us. They've been cooperative.
By Dean Bilton
Dan Andrews on school reopening
He doesn't think it will lead to a breakout or a third wave.
I think school community, teacher, staff, parents and students are all taking this very seriously.
There are some protocols, mask wearing, cleaning, all of those sorts of things, distancing, rules about people — if you're not staff or a student you can't come onto the school ground — all of those things.
I think that parents have done an amazing job, teachers and staff have done an amazing job
By Dean Bilton
Another lengthy back and forward
Dan Andrews is being grilled about the sequence of events on March 29.
After a lot of wrangling, leaving out the working to get there, the final question and answer was:
Did you have a conversation with Mr Eccles at any point at which you left the room at 12 noon in relation to security regarding hotels?
No.
By Dean Bilton
This is not political, Dan Andrews says
Interesting comments about "some members of the Federal Government".
I can't stand here and pretend it is over because I desperately, desperately want it to be. That's not leadership.
You'd be popular for five minutes and then the hospitals will be overrun and all the people calling for us to open up — including some members of the Federal Government I might add — I don't think they will be standing beside me having to explain why our hospital system is completely overrun.
You won't see them for dust.
So that's not leadership. Being popular or political, never been less important to me.
By Dean Bilton
Dan Andrews on the changing target dates
People were very keen to have targets and to have a clear sense of what we were aiming for and to have dates alongside those targets so we have tried to provide that, but at no point have I ever sought to guarantee that we would be able to deliver an outcome on a day.
That isn't the nature of this fight, I'm afraid. I wish I could. Much like I wish I could look down the camera and tell every Victorian all the different things I hope to announce on Sunday.
At no point have I said to people that these are a stone tablet and on this date we will take the following step. It has always been heavily cavated to say subject to how much virus there is and how much narrative sits behind those cases.
Perhaps I have not been as clear as we could have been.
By Dean Bilton
Dan Andrews on mask wearing and lockdown fatigue
I'm not for a moment denying that people are getting increasingly tired of these rules, we all are.
We'd all love the numbers to be lower than that they, love the rules to be different and get our sense of normal back in every way. I'm not critical of anybody for feeling that way.
That's just a natural result of being in the tenth month of one of the worst years we've ever had.
We all have to try and take responsibility for the decisions we make in the weeks and the months ahead because that will directly affect how quickly we open, if we can stay open, how many people will get sick, and whether our hospitals will be able to cope. We've all got a stake in that.
By Dean Bilton
Numbers and steps to be reconsidered by Sunday
Dan Andrews is addressing the planning going on ahead of a further lifting of restrictions on Sunday.
We might reconsider some other numbers, because we are getting more actuals, but the other thing that we by definition will have to reconsider is the different steps.
We have made really good progress and we should not move away from the fact that we had 725 cases six and a half weeks ago, and it's not 25 cases, it's 15 today.
We have achieved an awful lot — it's that stubborn tail, those last few cases, one or two outbreaks and all of a sudden your rolling average becomes, it gets very tough, very tough for us to get where we had hoped to be.
By Dean Bilton
Can we, and should we, be able to live with 10 cases as an average?
That's the question put towards Daniel Andrews.
On the issue of zero, five, 10, all of those things, I have always tried to be clear with people that we have targets and modelling based on those targets are.
The best upper public health advice was those targets cannot be achieved. Questions will become over what period, and if it will take an unacceptably long time, to get to those numbers, I have always tried to be clear.
Is the government reassessing the targets it has set?
Yes we are, I think.
They are a series of targets that are based on 1,000 plus assumptions, and as I have said many times, data always trumps the assumptions that we have fed into any model.
Even if it is a robust model between lots of universities and experts and we have a number of research institutes, bored as we have continued to evolve that.
It may be at a point where we have to call it, where we have to say that this is as good as it will get, that means there is some greater risk, that means that the task of keeping this thing suppressed will be harder, but, that is where we find ourselves, and that the choice that we have to make.
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