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3.43am BST

In terms of where the cases in Victoria are coming from, about 55% are from transmission within households, says Victoria’s Covid commander, Jeroen Weimar, and the “majority” of the remaining 45% are from social interactions between households.

And that is a very distinct pattern that we have seen over the last five or six weeks, since the number started to take off. We have seen a growing number of cases of household-to-household transmission, which when our contact traces back to individuals, becomes clear.

It is helping out your mother by providing groceries, by going to see your cousin, all those day-to-day things we all desperately want to go back and do.

3.40am BST

Back to Victoria.

Victoria has already missed its first projected milestone since the roadmap was released last Sunday.

But we hope that on the back of the certainty (of supply) around hubs, the certainty around GPs, that we can bring the rate of growth forward and we have every confidence that will happen.

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Source: The Guardian