# Capture — short, sharp circuit-breaker

- **Claim filed:** A “short, sharp circuit-breaker” lockdown for five days, to avoid a longer one.
- **Who:** Daniel Andrews, 12 February 2021
- **URL:** https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-12/victoria-coronavirus-lockdown-announced-by-daniel-andrews/13128514
- **Date on page:** 12 February 2021
- **Publisher:** ABC News
- **Title:** Daniel Andrews announces snap coronavirus lockdown for Victoria…
- **Captured:** 2026-08-14
- **Method:** saved HTML (`abc-circuit.html`)

## Verbatim (ABC)

> Victoria will enter a "short, sharp circuit-breaker" lockdown for five days

> Mr Andrews said the five-day shutdown was announced on public health advice to avoid a longer lockdown in the future.

> This circuit-breaker — and again, nobody wants all the consequences of a circuit-breaker, but the alternative is potentially devastating.

Stage 4, statewide, 11:59pm Friday to 11:59pm Wednesday. UK B.1.1.7 cluster from the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel.

## The other meter — cumulative days

Guardian, 22 October 2021 — `guardian-262-2021-10-22.html`  
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/22/melbourne-freedom-day-worlds-most-locked-down-city-takes-first-cautious-steps-to-reopening

> after 262 days, Melbourne will take its final steps out of stay-at-home orders

ABC Fact Check, 21 November 2022 — `abc-factcheck-2022-11-21.html`  
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/fact-check-is-melbourne-world-s-most-locked-down-city/101659926

Confirms Melbourne’s **cumulative** stay-at-home total as **262 days** (six lockdowns). Longest single stretch **111 days**. “World’s most locked-down” is contested (Iquique, Chile, 287). The 262 is the Victorian meter.

## What this file does not do

It does not file “every lockdown was pointless.” The Feb 2021 five-day snap is one slogan. The 262 is the running total. Two meters.