Victoria was on course for an even bigger virus catastrophe, with 20,000 new daily infections projected by mid-August.
Acting Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng said the rate of infections had been growing ten-fold every 10 days, and that might have continued had the government not imposed stage three restrictions.
On the 25th of June, we first hit 20 cases, he said.
On the 11th of July, 16 days later we hit 200 cases.
If we had continued with that same growth rate, 16 days after that, wed have hit 2000 cases and by next week, wed have hit 20,000 cases.
While this nightmare scenario was avoided, he said the present rate of daily infection was still too high, but he hoped it would begin to drop by next week.
“I dont want to get into a number but I would hope it is substantially less than what it is now and we would start to see that start of next week,” he said.
