Victoria lockdown: State’s coronavirus restrictions aren’t harsh enough

Lockdown restrictions in Victoria have now been in place for 14 days. By this point, we should be starting to see the benefits of lockdown reflected in the state’s day-on-day cases. But Victoria has just recorded another 403 coronavirus cases, and yesterday recorded Australia’s highest-ever 24-hour increase with 484 cases. Victoria University coronavirus researchers Vasso Apostolopoulos, Maja Husaric and Maximilian de Courten say there are several reasons the case numbers haven’t tapered off, including lax restrictions, people not taking the pandemic seriously, and the nature of the virus itself.