Melbourne residents have been issued a grim warning about the city's tough stage four restrictions, with concerns the lockdown could be extended beyond the September 13 deadline.
Though Victoria's Covid-19 case numbers dipped below 100 on Saturday for the first time in two months, Premier Daniel Andrews said the figures were still "too high" for Melbourne to move down to stage three.
"At 100, 94, at 114, whatever the number, we simply could not open up," he said on Sunday.
"Those numbers would explode, we would finish up and perhaps an even worse situation than we have been in recent months. We cannot fritter away all that good work and sacrifice.