"That is not the position we wanted to be in but we cannot have a situation where this continues to grow and grow in regional Victoria," Mr Andrews said. Regional Victoria will move to stage three restrictions from Thursday, meaning restaurants, cafes, bars and gyms will close from 11:59pm on Wednesday.
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Read our full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic Regional Victoria placed under stage three restrictions Leaving home for a funeral will be allowed under the rules.Īll students across the state will return to home-based learning and childcare centres will be closed.
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Rules for funerals remain unchanged, allowing 10 mourners plus those conducting ceremony.
Weddings are banned within Melbourne except on compassionate grounds. People are still allowed to visit their intimate partners, even if they live more than 5 km apart. The Premier said public transport timetables would be reduced to "a fraction" of what they were now. Restaurants and cafes may continue to offer takeaway and home delivery, and bottle shops will remain open. Large queues formed at supermarkets on Sunday morning as speculation about the new restrictions circulated.įor those under the stage four restrictions, exercise outside of the home will only be allowed for one hour at a time and recreational activities like golf and fishing will be banned. "Therefore we have to do more and we have to do more right now," he said. He said after much detailed analysis, the state's health experts told him the current strategy would not see the state reach a point where it could reopen until the end of the year. Mr Andrews said the current strategy undertaken by the Government so far had avoided "thousands of thousands" of cases from overwhelming hospitals, but it was "not working fast enough". Residents of Metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire are almost halfway through what was meant to be a six-week lockdown under stage three stay-at-home orders. Read our full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic "Those mysteries, that community transmission, is in many respects our biggest challenge and the reason why we need to move to a different set of rules," he said.įrom 6:00pm Sunday, a state of disaster has been declared across Victoria, which will act in addition to the state of emergency.įurther restrictions targeting workplaces will be announced on Monday. The Premier said there was an "unacceptably high" number of community transmission cases, and the state had 760 active COVID-19 infections where the source of the transmission was not known. The state's aged care outbreak has now grown to 1,083 active cases. There are now 385 people in Victorian hospitals, 38 of whom are in intensive care. Six of the seven cases are linked to aged care outbreaks. Seven people have died from coronavirus in Victoria in the last 24 hours, taking the state's death toll to 123. Premier Daniel Andrews said 671 new coronavirus cases had been detected since Saturday, with 6,322 infections now active in the state.
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