Zero Cases and Zero Deaths Victoria Can Celebrate the World’s First Covid-19 Wave 2 Victory
Adam Parker
Posted on October 26, 2020
Victorians. Today you are the world’s first people who have faced and defeated a Covid-19 Wave 2 with statistical validation. Your geographically small State relative to the rest of Australia, is its second-most populous. Your capital city Melbourne, sprawls around a bay dotted by communities ethnically diverse—some from the 19-year Global War on Terror—with all the communal, cultural and communications variables that brings. Your regional areas boast a proud diversity too part-dairy, part-agriculture, part-fishing and part-mine. On August 5, 2020, your State found itself on an exponential trajectory of Covid-19 cases that peaked at 725 before you locked down and placed Melbourne under nightly curfew. Around that time, the United Kingdom faced a similar tally. But you, not they, immediately limited your travel from…
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