“We didn’t get everything we wanted, but it’s better than what we were expecting,” chief executive Paul Guerra said.īut Mr Andrews painted Sunday’s announcements as a “mighty effort”, “a proud day” and “fantastic achievement”. The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry agreed: “We are short of where NSW is at, and we need to close that gap quickly”. But businesses will remain in limbo waiting for a time they can properly open and make a living again,” Victorian head Tim Piper said. “There are some important personal changes which will be greatly welcomed to enable Victorians to see family again. “We still need a detailed plan to allow workers to return to the office,” Property Council of Australia Victorian head Danni Hunter said.Īi Group said: “Victoria limps towards reopening” as “the slow and tedious road out of Victoria’s COVID lockdown continued”. Acuity of illness is substantially less than we thought it would be,” he said.īusiness groups welcomed the end of lockdown but expressed frustration at the slow pace of the reopening with personal freedoms put ahead of the business sector and no clarity on a return to the office, major events and masks still required outdoors. “The length of the stay in hospital is substantially less than we thought it would be. “We have more case numbers than we would like but they are not converting into hospitalisations,” Mr Andrews said. The case projections are also lower (3850 compared with 4543 by mid-December). It expects ICU admissions to hit 317, a 55 per cent reduction from the earlier estimate of 706. The institute has reduced the projected cumulative deaths for the combined outbreaks from 2202 to 1212, a 45 per cent reduction from projections made in September. “With the very high vaccination coverage, our health system – which will continue to have significant challenges – it will cope,” Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said. But the chance of peak hospital demand exceeding the state’s capacity – put at 1500 beds in the latest modelling – has dropped from 63 per cent to 23 per cent.
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