They’re doing an extraordinary work. I just go back to what I said in my opening remarks, our contact tracers, within a 24-hour period, are identifying and locking down first, second and third rings of cases.
They have never ever worked as hard, as fast, and as effectively as they are right now. But despite that, this variant is moving at a faster pace.
So, our contact tracers are doing a brilliant job but we need to get on top of this.
That’s why we have advice from public health, given the circumstances, more than 10,000 primary and secondary contacts, more than 150 exposure sites right across the state of Victoria, Bendigo, on our border, right across metropolitan Melbourne, we need to have this circuit-breaker lockdown. We know it works.
We know it makes a difference. We’ve done this before.
Victorians know what to do. But the contact tracers are working more quickly than they have ever done before.
