Coronavirus

What a massive effort all Victorians and Australians showed in 2020. To keep up the effort, we have been informed of new restrictions for all Victorians effective from now. Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, has made the following announcement:

From 11:59pm tonight, masks will again be mandatory indoors – in shops, in workplaces, anywhere this virus has a greater potential to spread.

The private gathering limit will also reduce from 30 to 15. As previously, that means a maximum of 15 guests in your home, not including babies under 12 months.

We'll also press pause on the scheduled increase to the number of people working in offices, with the current cap of 50 per cent to remain in place.

We'll also be opening testing sites in our city's south-east early tomorrow morning. Extra lanes will open for drive-through testing sites and Rapid Response Team sites will also be set up in local locations.

If you have symptoms – even if you've been nowhere near an exposure site – please, please get tested. You'll be helping to keep your loved ones and every Victorian safe.

I know this news might make people anxious or worried about what comes next. But this is one case. And as we've seen before, Victorians know how to rise to the challenge.

We've done this before - and we will do it again.

Let's all play our part, and get through this together.

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