State of disaster declared in Victoria
671 new COVID-19 cases
1. No one is allowed to be more than 5km from home for essential items, and only 1 person from each household is allowed to shop for essential items only ONCE a day
2. Each person is allowed only one hour of of exercise a day outside of your home. Maximum of 2people together, no families wandering/biking/playing together.
3. Curfew across metro Melbourne 8pm - 5am
Only reasons to be out during curfew is: give care, get care or go to and from Work. Proof will be required if you are asked by Police.
Enforced at 8pm tonight.
4. From Midnight Wednesday, Regional Victoria will move to Stage 3 restrictions.
5. No essential services will be affected : woolies/Coles/butchers/takeaway are NOT effected by this change.
6. No need to rush out and panic buy (Poor Dan having to spell this out)
7. On Wednesday ALL schools move to flexible & remote learning across the state. Exemptions of course. Regional VIC included, with further exemptions permitted.
8. In place for 6 weeks, until 13 September 2020.
Further details re: fines/govt payments/enforcement to come, but $1652 fine if you’re out after 8pm with no acceptable reason. You can be fined multiple times!
Edited to add:
9. Weddings banned from Thursday
10. Intimate partners visits and shared custody arrangements will not be affected, but the Curfew overrules this. You can visit your Missus more than 5km away, but you have to be home by 8pm, or you stay the night (hello high school sleepovers!)
11. Supermarket hours are up to the stores, but you cannot be out shopping after 8pm.