The restrictions, which will further impact every aspect of Australian’s everyday lives, could be brought in imminently, the state’s premier Daniel Andrews warned. The number is 1800 675 398. To download a PDF version, click here. Victoria has declared a state of disaster, with surging coronavirus cases forcing Premier Daniel Andrews to impose tougher lockdown restrictions. “It’s a fine balancing act. Professor Brett Sutton, Victoria's Chief Health Officer, has answered this question specifically, explaining that it depends on "what the data says". As of 2 August, a curfew is in place between the hours of 8pm to 5am. He said it was too difficult to extrapolate the data out so far. Stage four lockdown in Melbourne, a city of five million, is due to end in less than a month. Stage 4 restrictions will run from 2 August and will last for six weeks until 13 September 2020. “I am always very cautious but there is, on my part at least, a cautious optimism and a sense of real hope that this strategy is working and that we are seeing numbers fall now.”. But modelling produced by experts from the universities of Melbourne and New England, and released by the Victorian Government, paints a bleak picture. So we are going to be in masks for a long time. The restrictions will run for six weeks until September 13 where they will be reevaluated. Victorians will be allowed just five visitors to their homes, rather than the previous 15-person limit, until next Friday, February 26 — the balance of the 14-day incubation period. From 11.59pm on Friday 9 April 2021, Victoria has further relaxed its COVIDSafe settings. Image: Getty. These Stage Four restrictions mean Melbourne residents will need to abide by an overnight curfew for the next six weeks. All school students across the state will learn from home with the exception of some “special schools” or due to parental work commitments. Melbourne's stage four lockdown would be extended by a fortnight before restrictions are eased more significantly on September 28 according to the leaked document, which Premier Daniel Andrews stresses he has never seen and is out of date. These restrictions are currently due to lift at 11.59pm on Wednesday 17 February. For more questions answered by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, see the Stage 4 Q&A here. The Coronavirus hotline is available to Victorians who may suspect they have the virus and is open 24 hours, 7 days a week. Many of these new rules will greatly impact businesses. As experts worldwide have said since the start of the pandemic, the world needs to find a new 'COVID-normal' until there is a vaccine for the infectious illness. This table may be amended and updated with approval of the Chief Health Officer. Here’s what you need to know about the new Stage 4 … Timing: The later of either September 28 or when Metro Melbourne reaches an average daily case rate of 30-50 cases over the previous 14 days. “It may mean we can ease up in areas we know are not contributing to transmission.”. It offers police additional powers to enforce the new rules. In brief. "It depends on how hard we all work right now to get to that point. Victoria’s rate of COVID-19 infections is falling fast, raising hopes that draconian stage 4 restrictions can be lifted earlier than the scheduled 13 September end date. The Victorian State Government has also placed regional Victoria under Stage 3 restrictions. These restrictions mean there are only 4 reasons to leave home: Essential shopping; Care giving/compassionate reasons Premier Daniel Andrews (pictured, arriving at a press conference on Saturday) is expected to send Victoria into a strict stage four lockdown on Wednesday 2/3 SLIDES © Provided by Daily Mail Updates will be provided as they are announced by the Victorian government. But what does this mean to small to medium business owners and employers? Watch: How to have a conversation with anti-vaxxers. "I'm not sure if we will ever get beyond stage 2, I think we will always be in a stage 2.2, a stage between 2 and 3, until we get a vaccine," she told the public service broadcaster. stage 4 restrictions impacting melbourne include: an 8pm-5am curfew for metropolitan Melbourne (unless you are going to or from work or to get or give care); a … Victorian Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton. Partner visits will still be allowed outside of the five-kilometre home radius. Post continues below. Second Step. 9:54am Aug 3, 2020. Premier Daniel Andrews could not be drawn on what would happen on September 13 when stage 4 restrictions were due to end. Professor Baxter also signalled that Melbourne "won't be able to be like other states" for quite some time. He said he was 'cautiously optimistic' that restrictions will ease mid-September. "So not breaking those rules, not going out, not being out after curfew, not ignoring symptoms and waiting two to three days and then maybe getting a test or maybe not, all of those really personal choices, that is what makes the rules work, that is what makes the strategy work.". COVID Hotline. Victorian Premier holds Facebook Q&A, answers niche Stage 4 questions, Sri Lanka arrests politician over bombings, How stories of one man’s grandfather inspired a lifetime of service for our nation, Number of Perth locations deemed ‘higher risk for COVID-19’, WA records NEW case of community transmission through testing blitz. With businesses shuttered, students learning remotely and socialising banned for weeks, many were hoping stage 4 restrictions would end on September 13, as originally scheduled. COVIDSafe settings relaxed. Other than these few changes, the existing restrictions still apply for regional Victoria and the stage four restrictions for metro Melbourne. On Sunday, the Premier was asked by reporters if this was still the plan. The restrictions will remain in place until September 13. Breaches of the new rules will be met with a $1652 fine. These rules come into effect for Melbourne from 11:59pm Sunday 19 October. Melbourne curfew . "I am very mindful of the fact that [isolation] is a burden everyone is carrying and some people will be really struggling with it," he explained. With COVID-19 making an unwelcomed return, August 2020 saw metropolitan Melbourne has entered stage 4 lockdown restrictions, the strictest to date. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says he is cautiously optimistic that restrictions will ease come mid-September. Members of the same household can help a person move house. When does stage 4 lockdown end in Melbourne? Now that Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown has been in place for two weeks, experts have modelled where the state will be at the end of six weeks and when restrictions can be lifted. Allie Godfrey, Lucy Mae Beers and Brett Wadelton. Your questions answered on Victoria's Stage 4 restrictions. An 8pm-5am curfew for metropolitan Melbourne (unless you are going to or from work or to get or give care); A ban on travelling more than 5km from home for shopping or recreation; Allowing only one person per household to shop once a day; Limiting daily exercise to one hour, no more than 5km from home and in groups of no more than two; Bans on weddings from midnight on Wednesday. Remember to keep triple zero (000) for emergencies only. From Thursday, those same rules will apply to Melbourne's kinder and early childhood education services, with the restrictions expected to stay in … Study at TAFE and university will also have to done remotely. As the number of new daily infections continues to decrease, Victoria's extreme efforts to slow the spread of the deadly infection are starting to show promising signs. The Coronavirus hotline is available to Victorians who may suspect they have the virus and is open 24 hours, 7 days a week. He ensured Victorians that the easing of restrictions will consider the mental toll of the extreme lockdown. Whilst Baxter acknowledged that cases are decreasing, she explained that "the second wave always takes a lot longer to come down and people have to be in for the long haul.". Even if we get down to stage 1.5 we will be wearing masks.". A Stage 4 lockdown plus (critically) 90 per cent of people wearing face masks when they’re out of the home gets us to nearly a 50 per cent chance of eliminating community transmission by 19 August (the end date of the six-week lockdown). On Tuesday, Victoria recorded 222 new cases, marking the third consecutive day of numbers below 300 and the lowest daily result in over a month. The restrictions will run for six weeks until September 13 where they will be reevaluated. The State of Emergency has been extended to the same time, and regional Victoria's stage three lockdown will also end then. Sun 2 Aug 2020 04.06 EDT. "What we've shown is that mask-wearing works. Post continues below. Stage 4 Restrictions This table describes the ‘Permitted Work Premises’ for the purposes of the Restricted Activity Directions (Restricted Areas) (No 6), effective as at 5 August 2020 from 11:59pm (version 1.0). On today's episode, they explore the latest on the coronavirus vaccine. The information provided in this article is current at the date of publication, however, the situation is rapidly evolving, businesses are strongly encouraged to monitor the Victorian Department of Health’s advice and our associated resources. It's one day at a time," Andrews said. Regional Victoria For the full list of everything that is open and closed, see the official Stage 4 industries list. The Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, has announced the escalation to Stage 4 restrictions in Melbourne and Stage 3 restrictions across regional Victoria. He said it was too difficult to extrapolate the data out so far. Victoria’s state of emergency declaration has been extended three days to Sunday, September 13, in line with the end of the six-week lockdown. Melburnians are to stay at home from 8pm to 5am every day unless they are seeking or giving care or working. Sign up for the "Mamamia Daily" newsletter. It also is likely that routine testing for hotel quarantine staff and aged care staff - two sectors that have contributed significantly to the spread of coronavirus - will be introduced. Melbourne residents will be subject to an overnight curfew … Unprecedented ‘stage four’ restrictions are looming in Victoria, with officials warning there is ‘no end date in sight’ for strict coronavirus lockdown measures.. “The time for discretion, the time for accepting some of this bad behaviour is over,” Andrews said. First published on Sat 1 Aug 2020 19.27 EDT. Daniel Andrews says it is "unlikely" coronavirus will be entirely eliminated from the community. “We won’t be jumping to 10 people in a home.”. Listen to The Quicky, Mamamia's daily news podcast. "Everybody in aged care would need to be tested once a week because the real challenge with COVID-19 is it spreads before people develop symptoms, so it spreads far and wide before people know they are spreading it," Professor Baxter told ABC Radio. Image: Getty. Here's everything we know about how restrictions will ease in Australia's epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. "The notion of completely extinguishing it and never seeing it again, I think that it would be an unlikely outcome.". Victoria's unemployment rate is expected to reach 11 per cent as a result of stage 4 coronavirus restrictions, with Treasury forecasts based on the assumption some form of stay-at-home orders will be in place until at least the end of September. Restrictions for the public . Stage four lockdown is due to end at 11.59pm on Sunday, September 13. Premier Daniel Andrews could not be drawn on what would happen on September 13 when stage 4 restrictions were due to end. The state government declared a “State of Disaster”, allowing it to expand restrictions on people’s movements. Under Stage 4 all those living in Melbourne can still move house if it had already been planned. Stage 4 restrictions. Stage four lockdown is due to end at 11.59pm on Sunday, September 13. However, today I want to present the opposite case of why I believe that Stage 4 restrictions should be extended for two weeks until 27 September. For the first time in history Melbourne is living under a curfew as part of strict stage four restrictions. The same rules will apply to Melbourne’s kinder and early childhood education services from Thursday. The Premier has announced Stage 4 restrictions for 5 days to slow the spread of COVID-19, commencing 11.59pm today (Friday, 12 February) and ending at 11.59pm on Wednesday, 17 February. Stage Four restrictions in Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire and Stage Three restrictions elsewhere in the state are currently scheduled to expire on September 13, after six weeks of enforcement. After more than 100 days in lockdown, Premier Daniel Andrews has today announced the following changes to the restrictions and rules that Victorians have had to live by. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced Stage 4 restrictions for Melbourne and Stage 3 restriction for the rest of Victoria on August 2. Here's everything we know about how restrictions will ease in Australia's epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. It's one day at a time," Mr Andrews said. "It depends on how hard we all work right now to get to that point. These changes are designed to balance getting Victorians back to doing the things they love while keeping in place measures to … These changes will be in place for at least the next six weeks until Sunday 13 September. At 11.59pm tonight the entirety of Victoria, including regional, will be returning to Stage 4 lockdown conditions for five days. Victoria premier Daniel Andrews says existing restrictions with minor changes will remain in place until 28 September Coronavirus Australia map Melbourne stage 4 restrictions explained 1,634. 1634. Get across the stories women are talking about today. When do Stage 4 restrictions end? But how likely is it for the lockdown to end per planned? On 2 August, Premier Daniel Andrews announced the introduction of Stage 4 lockdown which introduced sweeping changes to the way the public of Victoria live. As always, we’ll keep reviewing and realigning the restrictions in line with the advice of our health experts – and if we can change things earlier, we will. 4) made on 16 August 2020. Andrews also announced a “state of disaster” had been declared, in addition to the ongoing “state of emergency”. On Tuesday, Professor Nancy Baxter, the head of Melbourne University's School of Population and Global Health, explained to ABC Radio the likely circumstances of post-stage-four lockdown. We may move to a point where people can have visitors, but we need to balance that with transmission risk. The proponents listed below have been deemed critical and essential infrastructure by the Victorian Government, endorsed by the Chief Health Officer, for the purposes of Section 7 (36) b i of the Workplace (Additional Industry Obligations) Directions (No. The number is 1800 675 398. There is no time limit for … We also recognise that workplaces continue … Essential retail outlets, including food stores; Restaurants, bars, cafes and gyms to shut from midnight on Wednesday. Victoria Returning to Stage 4 Lockdown. The restrictions will run for six weeks until September 13 where they will be reevaluated. 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