Matt Taylor
Confused about changing restrictions? These are the rules that will be in place from Friday, as lockdown eases across regional Victoria.
- Can leave home for any reason
- Face masks must be carried at all times; worn indoors except at home; worn outdoors if 1.5m social distancing can’t be maintained
- No private gatherings permitted
- Public gatherings allowed for up to 10 people
- Schools return to face-to-face learning for all year levels
- Childcare centres open
- All retail open with QR code compliance
- Indoor sport closed
- Community sport is permitted for juniors, but only training for adults
- Hospitality venues: Open for seated service only with a maximum patron cap of 50 people. Group sizes to a maximum of 10 people
- Entertainment venues including cinemas: Open up to 25 per cent seated capacity indoors and 50 per cent capacity outdoors, both up to a maximum of 50 people
- Hairdressers, beauty salons: Open with face masks required
- Weddings are permitted with a maximum of 10 people
- Funerals permitted with up to 50 people
- Accommodation: Open
- Hospital: No visitors are permitted into healthcare settings, except for end-of-life reasons, support person for birth and parent accompanying a child
- Care facilities: Visitors permitted into aged care or other care facilities for end-of-life reasons and permitted purposes only
THE FULL STORY: Restrictions ease for regional Victoria as Melbourne lockdown extended
