The key moments from Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’s five-day lockdown announcement

We should assume there are more cases of COVID-19 in the community.

That’s what Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said before announcing a five-day lockdown across the state.

During their hour-and-a-half press conference, Victorian authorities stressed that the virus was moving at a speed never seen before in Australia.

They described the UK strain of COVID-19 as “something very different” to what was experienced in 2020.

But they said they were confident the lockdown would prevent a third wave of the virus in Victoria.

There is plenty of unpack. Here are the key points.

Premier Daniel Andrews set the theme

Mr Andrews said the state needed a circuit breaker.

“It is the advice to me that we must assume that there are further cases in the…