December 26, 2024

Coronavirus Australia live updates: Victoria records 11 new Covid cases in Melbourne outbreak and braces for potential lockdown

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James Merlino is going through some of the rules:

For shopping and exercise, you need to stay within 5km of your home, unless your nearest shops are further away.

Masks must be worn everywhere, indoors and outdoors, anywhere other than your home, unless an exemption applies.

There are to be no visitors to your home other than an intimate partner.

Single bubbles will be permitted. If you live alone, you can make a bubble with another person.

And there’s to be no public gatherings.

In terms of what remains open, so restaurants, pubs, and cafes can provide takeaway only.

Essential retail, so supermarkets, food stores, petrol stations, banks, bottle shops and pharmacies, other retail stores can provide click and collect.

Childcare and kinders will be open as per the last circuit-breaker lockdown earlier this year.

Approved professional sporting events will proceed but proceed without crowds.

Authorised workers and workplaces – in terms of what will be closed or changed, schools will move to remote learning, except for vulnerable children, and children of authorised workers. Higher education will move to remote learning only.

Community support and recreation, accommodation, but there will be some exemptions that apply.

Hotels, clubs, TABs and the casino will be closed, indoor and outdoor entertainment venues, swimming pools, spas, saunas, indoor and outdoor springs, community venues, drive-in cinemas, amusements parks, creative studios, art galleries and museums, tourism, tours, and transport, and auctions can only happen online.

In terms of our health settings, aged care facilities: no visitors except for limited reasons.

In our hospitals, visitors only for end of life, to support a partner during birth, or a parent accompanying a child. In terms of ceremonies, funerals: a maximum of 10 people, plus those running the service.

Weddings cannot proceed unless end-of-life or deportation reasons apply.

And religious activities will not proceed other than through broadcast with a maximum of five people.

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