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As reported earlier, the rolling average for metro Melbourne is 39.3. So Melbourne is well with the 30-50 average cases range for the easing of restrictions on 28 September.
Andrews:
“So this strategy is working. Those numbers tell a powerful story of what can be achieved when you say the course.
When you don’t get sidetracked by some of the loudest voices, who I understand are hurting and want to open up, we would all like to open up as quickly as possible, but we won’t be open for very long if we don’t first get these numbers down to a low level and I think I would say to everyone watching and listening right now logic, commonsense, international our own experience shows us that you can’t hope to keep numbers low until you first get them low.
There are 834 active cases in Victoria, so we are now below 900.
There are 28 active cases in regional Victoria, so 806 in metro Melbourne.
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