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To help ensure this, Victoria’s Chief Health Officer will assess vaccination requirements for all authorised workers in Victoria. The Burnet modelling also shows that the key to opening up and reducing risk in Victoria will be making sure workers across the state are vaccinated.

There will be a “guard rail” system in place, which will allow our public health team to adjust restrictions if hospital admissions become too high. The COVID-19 thresholds detailed in the Roadmap will be important measures to maintain as we move through the different stages in order to safeguard the health system. While we’re no longer aiming for COVID zero, it’s imperative we don’t jeopardise our health system as we open up – too many Victorians rely on it every day.

The modelling has helped our public health teams get a picture of what our hospitalisation rates could look like while cases are still rising and develop trigger points to indicate if the system is becoming overstretched – allowing time to implement further health measures and protect it from becoming overwhelmed. The Roadmap has been developed based on expert modelling from the Burnet Institute and is set against COVID-19 thresholds including hospitalisation rates, and the vaccination targets already set out in the National Plan to transition Australia’s National COVID-19 Response. Victoria’s new Roadmap to Deliver the National Plan released today sets us on a hopeful path to opening while also preserving our health system and ensuring Victorians can still get the healthcare they need, when they need it most. The path to being open again will be difficult – but essential to moving forward as a state. However, as more and more Victorians get that protection, we move to the next phase of the pandemic and we have the opportunity to open up. Opening up too soon – before people had the chance to get the jab – would mean our hospital system simply could not cope and catastrophic numbers of Victorians would become seriously unwell.

We have missed our loved ones and doing the things we love, all the while buying time for people to get vaccinated. These past 20 months have been incredibly hard on all Victorians.