Victoria will go into a snap seven-day lockdown from midnight Thursday as it grapples with a new COVID-19 outbreak.
Here are all the new rules and restrictions.
Restricted: Masks
Masks must be carried at all times and must be worn indoors and outdoors except at home.
Restricted: Movement
There are five reasons to leave home:
- Shopping for food and supplies at shops within 5 kilometres from home unless the closest shop is further than 5km away
- Exercise with a two-hour limit with one other person and within 5km from home
- Compassionate care, caregiving and medical reasons
- Authorised work or permitted education, or work interstate
- To get vaccinated
Vaccinations are available for any Victorian aged 40 and over from Friday.
Restricted: Hospitals and care
Aged care facilities will not be allowed visitors except for end-of-life reasons.
Visitors to hospitals are only allowed if it's for patients on end-of-life care, a parent accompanying a child, or to support a partner giving birth.
Restricted: Education and childcare
All schools will move to remote learning except for vulnerable children and children of authorised workers.
Childcare and kindergartens will remain open.
Higher education must move to remote learning.
Restricted: Workplaces
Victorians must work from home unless they are authorised workers.
Restricted: Gatherings
Public and private gatherings are not permitted indoors or outdoors, except for visiting intimate partners.
Single-person bubbles are allowed for those living alone.
Restricted: Shopping
Supermarkets, petrol stations, bottle shops, banks, and pharmacies can remain open but Victorians must only shop within 5km of home unless the closest shop is more than 5km away.
Other retail can provide click-and-collect.
Restricted: Weddings and funerals
A maximum of 10 people are allowed at funerals, plus those running the service.
Children under 12 months old are not counted towards this cap.
Weddings are not allowed unless deportation or end-of-life reasons apply. If those reasons do apply, the wedding can only have five people, including the two people getting married, a celebrant, and two witnesses.
Restricted: Entertainment
All entertainment venues including cinemas, drive-in cinemas, amusement parks, casinos, betting and gaming venues, brothels and sexually explicit venues will close.
Click-and-collect is permitted at libraries and retail stores.
Restricted: Beauty services
All hairdressers, personal services, and beauty services must close.
Restricted: Sport and exercise
Victorians can exercise for up to two hours a day within 5km of their home with a maximum of one other person.
Swimming pools, indoor gym and recreation centres, play centres, indoor skate parks, and indoor trampolining centres will close.
Outdoor playgrounds remain open.
Approved professional sporting events can go ahead but without spectators.
Restricted: Places of worship
No in-person gatherings are permitted.
Broadcast services are allowed with a maximum of five people.
Restricted: Food
Restaurants, pubs, and cafes can provide takeaway only.
Restricted: Real estate
Auctions must move online.
Restricted: Public spaces
No outdoor gatherings are allowed.
Restricted: Travel and tourism
Victorian residents cannot travel further than 5km from their home except:
- To access food and other essential supplies outside the 5km radius
- To visit an intimate partner
- To visit a person in your single bubble
- Allowed to travel for authorised work and permitted education
- Work at an interstate location (where permitted by another state)
- Care and compassionate reasons
Hotels must close unless for permitted reasons, or shelter in place.
Unrestricted: Curfew
There is no curfew in place.
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