19 July

Blue is Victoria, grey is NSW. Over that period where I’ve put the red line you can see Victoria still had community transmission, NSW mostly didn’t. Then you see Victoria take off, around the blue arrow. What was that date? ‘Opening up the economy’. Not hundreds of people escaping from hotel quarantine. Look through those late-June and July numbers and you can see community transmission beginning in NSW. Less than a month ago Victoria had the same numbers as us. Every day we don’t lock things down again, that virus is out there spreading. You can’t suppress the virus.