Victoria has posted a record 191 new cases of COVID-19, a big increase on yesterday’s record daily increase of 127.
As shown in the next chart, new infections have blown past March’s peak and are growing exponentially:
The situation is actually much worse, given March’s cases were imported whereas today’s cases are primarily from community transmission:
There are now 836 active cases in Victoria, 97% of the nation’s total:
As shown below, Victoria’s COVID-19 infections have turned exponential while the rest of Australia has flatlined:
This represents a massive failure by Premier Daniel Andrews, whose government’s failed management of hotel quarantine is behind the surge.
Premier Andrews will hold a media conference later this afternoon, with speculation that the whole of Melbourne will go into lockdown.
