COVID-19 restrictions: What you need to know

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

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