Two weeks of mandatory masks, but a record 725 new cases: why are Melbourne’s COVID-19 numbers so stubbornly high?

[2greys]

Melburnians have now been wearing mandatory face coverings in public for two weeks. Yet Premier Daniel Andrews yesterday announced another grim milestone in Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19 infections: 725 new cases, a record daily tally for any Australian state since the pandemic began.

Four weeks after Melbourne reintroduced stage 3 restrictions, logic suggests the coronavirus curve should have flattened and begun heading downwards by now. And on July 27, Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton suggested the plateauing figures could represent the peak of the state’s daily case numbers.

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[teenieleek]

It can take up to two weeks for symptoms to show and then get a test, get the results......

[Tia4209 in reply to teenieleek]

That was my thoughts too. x

[leo60]

That, but also if we look at the spikes, is it where aircon is relied upon? Sunshine states in USA, Melbourne …… Aberdeen ! well there has to be an exception to prove the rule?