Chief health officer rejects lifting mask restrictions during regional Victoria heatwave | Sky News Australia

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Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton has rejected the possibility of restrictions around mask-wearing being lifted in parts of regional Victoria despite Mildura expecting a heatwave over the weekend.

| "Masks make the difference between a super-spreading event and potentially infecting no-one at all," he said. "When you're not wearing a mask, the ability to spread the virus to anyone around you is much, much greater. So, that's a setting that we think is really important now. We will review it over time. "As these numbers are driven down...

we have seen a halving of the number of cases of unknown origin, we have seen halving of the number of active cases. So, it's totally heading in the right direction." Mr Sutton said the settings "should change" over time but claimed "if there was a seeding" the possibility of a cluster that becomes an outbreak that becomes explosive numbers was a really "high stakes game".

 

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Brett🤡weren’t you, along with Dan and the muppets from this incompetent Labor Party initially saying masks do nothing to protect against Covid?!?! Why the change of tune? Also check whatystated on the pack! Hypocrisy at its best! Can you get anything right?🤡🤡🤡

They don't work

It's all about control! Control by the CON TROLL!

Ridiculous how about commonsense for regional Victoria..

Do what you want, not what they say. They don't even know who said what, they can't possibly prove their case in court.

In Germany 4 children, the youngest 6 yrs old, have died from the effects of the masks. Media, Merkel, Health Minister: CRICKETS. 😠 Don't wear Mask! Just DONT do it !

Is he still clowning around, FFS, has he still got a job ?

Our Asian neighbours have endured a hot & humid 6+ months of summer weather wearing face masks. The dry Australian heat in Victoria is nowhere near as bad as the hot & humid climate in Asia.

Its no longer about the virus, its some hidden Agenda

It’ll take an old lady keeling over from heat exhaustion and still they’ll dig in

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