“But they have done this in the context of significant restrictions on movement,” Associate Professor Rait said. “The test is when they open up.”
For the first time since June 9,there were no new cases of coronavirus announced on Monday,prompting Premier Daniel Andrews,who had been waiting anxiously on testing results from the city’s north,to declare"now is the time to open up”.
La Trobe University epidemiologist Associate Professor Hassan Vally said contact tracers would face new challenges now that Victorians could go shopping and dine out again from Wednesday.
“As soon as you start opening up,people will have contact with more people,so the amount of work involved with interviewing every case potentially will increase,” he said.
But he believes the state's tracing team are up to it.