

But at the same time, Victoria pretty clearly has a view that there is a very strong argument for going hard as soon as possible, not incrementally creeping toward it.”

“My reading of it is they would desperately like a national, coordinated unified response, and that's terrific. Professor Crabb said Victoria’s chief medical officer Brett Sutton strongly supported a lockdown. “The main point is pulling every lever you reasonably have, now”

He said governments could come up with a plan B to provide for health workers and others who would be impacted by school closures, including how to support those from low socioeconomic backgrounds, but “I would strongly favour a precautionary approach with schools until we know better what is happening there, and the precautionary approach is to assume that transmission is happening.”
