A prestigious school has forced its entire cohort of students to learn from home after a single girl and a third of its teachers were hit by a Covid outbreak.
Professor Adrian Esterman says the decision to start reporting coronavirus cases, hospitalisations and deaths across all states on a weekly basis is a bad move.
But a pandemic adviser to the nation’s chief health officers says Victoria cannot afford to lift a suite of pandemic orders and must halt winding back restrictions if it wants to cut the mandatory isolation period from seven to five days.