In Victoria this past week, the word was ‘donut’. Or to be precise, double donut: two consecutive days of zero new Wuhan virus cases and zero deaths linked to the virus. Having been rightly savaged last Sunday for his ‘cautious pause’ on ending the lockdown even though the 14-day rolling daily average of new cases dropped below his precondition figure of five, on Monday, Premier Daniel Andrews had no choice but to relent and, like Pharaoh, let his people go.
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