LISA MILLAR: Well the country's eyes are on Victoria as the state is still struggling to wrestle control over coronavirus outbreaks.
The new acting Chief Medical Officer of Australia, Professor Paul Kelly joins us now from Canberra. Thanks so much for joining us.And this is the first time we had you on the program with this new title.
So congratulations and the first thing you're dealing with, of course, is what's going on in Victoria. Do localised shutdowns like this work?PROFESSOR PAUL KELLY: This has absolutely been part of our plan.
If we did have an outbreak exactly as we're seeing now in certain parts of Melbourne, that we would do a localised shutdown and we've had some experience with this in relation to north-west Tasmania.