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Victoria records 59 deaths and 81 cases.
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September 4, 2020 8:27am
Victoria has recorded 81 new cases and 59 deaths – although a number of those deaths were not in the past 24 hours.
It’s understood a number of the newly reported deaths are previously known deaths that have been reclassified. There was also a spike in the state’s death toll on Monday, when the state recorded 41 new deaths.
That total included 22 people who died in the weeks leading up to 27 August and were reported to DHHS by aged care facilities.
Meanwhile, Victorians are being called on to endure another eight weeks of lockdown for the greater good of the nation.
The brutal call comes from one of Australia’s most respected think tanks, the Grattan Institute, which says the state’s six-week lockdown will almost certainly not be enough to reopen the economy.
It is calling on Victoria, NSW, and Queensland to “aggressively drive COVID-19 cases down to zero” as part of an explicit national policy of no active cases in the Australian community.
“Opening up too early, while coronavirus is still in the community, runs the risk of future outbreaks, reimposed lockdowns, renewed economic disruption, and more deaths,” the report’s authors wrote. “Having come this far, we should finish the job.”
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