Victorian health authorities must be smarter about their approach to lockdowns when the next coronavirus outbreak inevitably emerges so that unnecessarily long and punishing COVID-19 statewide shutdowns are avoided.
As Melbourne emerges from lockdown, experts have cast doubt on the science being used to retain rules such as the 25-kilometre travel limit and the wearing of masks outdoors.
Victorian authorities have also stepped up testing and isolation requirements for the Delta outbreak in efforts to prevent a third wave of infections taking hold.