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Drop in coronavirus cases may never reach road map targets: experts – The Age
Victoria may have never been able to reach some of the ‘hard targets’ set to trigger the reopening of the state by Christmas, a leading epidemiologist has warned.
“So, if we’re there, it’ll be pretty clear that we can take the next step.
“If we have very low numbers and they are stubborn and persistent and we cannot get rid of it otherwise, but we can keep them under control, then we’ll carry on with that strategy.”
But Professor Jodie McVernon, the director of epidemiology at Melbourne’s Doherty Institute, warned requiring zero cases for a fortnight would be difficult to achieve and was heartened by the notion that it did not appear to be a hard target…
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