Foley said the state government’s decision to isolate the secondary contacts of primary close contacts of Covid-19 cases was paying off, with half of the new infections reported on Wednesday being household contacts of primary close contacts.
Over 18,000 primary close contacts and over 10,000 secondary close contacts are currently isolating across the state.
Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning
“If Victoria wasn’t managing those secondary close contacts as tightly as we are now, the advice that we have is that this virus would have got beyond us already. It has not,” Foley said.