One month and one day ago was the last time Victoria recorded zero fresh coronavirus cases in a 24- hour period.
On June 9, the state’s Premier Daniel Andrews declared it “a very good outcome”, but cautioned the situation might change quickly.
It did.
On Friday Victoria tape-recorded 288 new coronavirus cases, the worst everyday boost of any state or territory given that the pandemic began, breezing past the previous record of 212 cases in NSW in late March.
This is the trajectory new cases took because the