2 August 2020 / COVID-19

Melbourne Stage 4 Restrictions

The VIC Premier just announced the following at a press conference:

671 new cases and 7 more deaths overnight
From 6pm tonight, a State of Disaster will apply in VIC, and Stage 4 restrictions will come into place for Melbourne:
- People will only be able to shop and exercise within a 5km radius from home
- Only 1 person per household will be able to shop once per day
- No recreational activities allowed, like golf or tennis
- 1 hour of exercise only per day, no further than 5km from home
- No group bigger than 2, regardless of whether in family or home
- Intimate partner visits allowed outside of 5km
- A curfew will be in place from 8pm tonight, curfew will run 8pm to 5am every day in metropolitan Melbourne
- Only reason to be out outside these curfew hours is to get care / give care / go to or from work / be at work
From midnight this coming Wednesday, the rest of Victoria (all regional areas) will move to Stage 3 restrictions. These will be the same restrictions in place for Melbourne currently, and not the additional Stage 4 restrictions above.
Tomorrow the VIC Premier will announce more changes regarding industries and workplaces:
- 3 categories of businesses will apply
- Category that will remain open – supermarkets, bakeries, butchers, takeway food etc
- Category that will remain open with restrictions and less output
- Category that will move to work from home only, or if work from home isn’t possible, will have to shut
In regard to schools, from midnight this coming Wednesday, flexible and remote learning for all students in all schools across Victoria
Children will be able to go to school if their parents are ‘defined industry’ workers or vulnerable children
These measures will last for 6 weeks (from today for the Stage 4 restrictions and from Wed midnight for other restrictions)
More about fines/enforcements tomorrow