People living in metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire will now be required to wear a face covering when leaving home for one of the four reasons, following a concerning increase in coronavirus cases in recent days.
Based on the latest advice from the Chief Health Officer, we’re urging Victorians: just as you remember to take your keys when you leave the house, you need to remember to take something to cover your face – to help keep you and our community safe.
Bass Coast and South Gippsland both drop from 3 Active Cases to 2. Read the full media releases covering Victoria
Coronavirus testing will be stepped up across regional Victoria this week and a new Geelong-based public health team will be established to help slow the spread of the virus and provide the data we need to inform decisions about restrictions – as the Chief Health Officer expands his recommendation to wear a mask.
Victoria Police continue to ensure Victorians are following the most recent directions of the Chief Health Officer, with 546 fines issued since Stage 3 “Stay at Home” restrictions were reintroduced throughout metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire and police conducting more than 100,000 checks in total since enforcement began in March.
DHHS confirmed 2 active cases in Bass Coast. No further details have been given regarding these two cases.
Victorians living in metro Melbourne and Mitchell Shire are now recommended to wear face masks in situations where they are leaving their home and physical distancing is not possible – to help slow the spread of coronavirus in the community.
Reports have come in of two covid patients admitted into Wonthaggi hospital on Monday July 6th.
Two more suburbs to join the lockdown in Melbourne at midnight tonight (Saturday July 4th, 2020).
In the suburb of Flemington and North Melbourne a total of 9 high rise buildings will be completely locked down. After midnight tonight, no residents of those 9 high rise residential buildings will be allowed to leave the buildings for at least 5 days and up to 14 days.
In line with advice from the Victorian Chief Health Officer, the Victorian Government has announced that a number of postcodes will return to Stage 3 Stay at Home restrictions from 11.59pm on Wednesday 1 July 2020.
This decision was made in response to increasing evidence of significant community transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19) in these postcodes:
The Suburbs
3012 (Brooklyn, Kingsville, Maidstone, Tottenham, West Footscray)
3021 (Albanvale, Kealba, Kings Park, St Albans)
3032 (Ascot Vale, Highpoint City, Maribyrnong, Travancore)
3038 (Keilor Downs, Keilor Lodge, Taylors Lakes, Watergardens)
3042 (Airport West, Keilor Park, Niddrie, Niddrie North)
3046 (Glenroy, Hadfield, Oak Park)
3047 (Broadmeadows, Dallas, Jacana)
3055 (Brunswick South, Brunswick West, Moonee Vale, Moreland West)
3060 (Fawkner)
3064 (Craigieburn, Donnybrook, Mickelham, Roxburgh Park, Kalkallo)
If you live in these locations, there will again only be four reasons to be out:
Shopping for food and supplies
Care and caregiving
Exercise
Study or work – if you can’t do it from home.
Wherever you can, you should do these things as close to home as you can. If you do need to leave your postcode, those same restrictions – those same four reasons – travel with you. If you live outside these locations, there’s only four reasons to come into these communities: shopping for food and supplies, care and caregiving, exercise, and study or work – if you can’t do it from home.
Eligible local businesses will be able access an initial $5000 in support from the government.
Based on the most up-to-date advice of the Chief Health Officer, students will return to school after the school holidays.
For more information visit vic.gov.au/CORONAVIRUS
Staying Apart Keeps Us Together
Premier Andrews locks down individual suburbs from midnight tonight (Wednesday July 1st, 2020).
Strict rules on movement. Heavily enforced by police.
The total number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Victoria is 1,987, with 41 new cases reported yesterday.
Yesterday’s new cases include one case detected in returned travellers in hotel quarantine. Within Victoria, eight new cases are linked to outbreaks and 13 new cases identified through routine testing. Meanwhile, there are 19 cases under investigation.
Travellers and accommodation operators will benefit from on-site temperature testing over the school holidays, with infrared thermometers being distributed across the state to help keep Victorians safe.
From the outset, we have always listened to our medical experts. And they’re telling us we’ve come to a critical crossroads.
Today, our case numbers have hit the highest they’ve been in more than two months. I know that’s not what people want to hear – but sadly, that is our reality.
I pulled the official letter from our post office box early one morning a few weeks ago. It was solely addressed to me.
I was a little shocked upon opening and reading the concerning news, yet subconsciously I’d been awaiting the inevitable day my body would begin to protest.
As of 2 June 2020, there are 1,663 confirmed coronavirus cases in Victoria with 10 new cases overnight. More than 521,000 tests have been conducted, 1,563 have recovered and there have been 19 deaths.
The following statement is from South Gippsland Shire Council’s Chief Executive Officer, Kerryn Ellis:
Up to 100,000 Victorians will be tested for coronavirus over the next two weeks as part of a major testing blitz across the State, to better understand how the virus is spreading in the community and set us up for the potential easing of restrictions.
Generally human disease transmission spreads in one of three ways. Direct contact, touching something contaminated by someone else, or by getting too close and breathing a floating germ from someone else via the air.
The Victorian Government will fast-track the recruitment of 120 extra paramedics to boost the frontline of Victoria’s coronavirus response and help ensure all Victorians get the health support they need when they need it.
The State of Emergency in Victoria is being extended for another four weeks to give the Victorian Government the powers it needs to keep slowing the spread of coronavirus and save lives.
The Victorian Government has announced a funding boost to support Victoria’s mental health system and ensure Victorians get the care they need, as demand for services spikes during the coronavirus crisis.
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