'It's not going to be easy': experts on what Australia must do to curb Covid's spread | Tony Blakely, Michael Baker and Nick Wilson

We asked epidemiologists in Australia and New Zealand on the effectiveness of lockdowns and what's next

As of 2 August Australia had been experiencing average rates (smoothed over five days given how fluctuating daily counts are) of 500 to 600 per day in Victoria - although we may have just passed the peak with numbers perhaps beginning to fall in the last few days. But we still have a long way to go.