Victoria is heading into another night of its fifth lockdown after just 18 cases were recorded in the community but there was “some hesitation” before it was announced, according to the Australian’s Rachel Baxendale.
“There was actually some hesitation we were hearing on Wednesday night into yesterday that a lockdown of three to five days was on the cards,” she told Sky News host Chris Smith.
“The messages coming out of the Andrews government privately were that they were initially holding off on going into that.”
Ms Baxendale said the lockdown was not triggered by the amount of cases but the “nature of cases” as there was evidence of fleeting transmission.
“It was the nature of cases that determined that decision and the fact that they had seen that very obvious evidence of transmission of the virus between strangers at a mass event.”
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