

“There will be no browsing, it’s click and collect. “People who are working in authorised industries can go to work, people who are not authorised cannot go to work, so just for clarity sake, like, retail is shut. Mr Andrews also made a point of banning non-essential shopping.
Melbourne in lockdown today plus#
“So it’s the four reasons from last year, plus going and getting your jab, going and being vaccinated as part of the Commonwealth government’s program, they are the five reasons,” Mr Andrews said. The lockdown will mean Melburnians can only leave their home for five essential reasons. RELATED: Victoria’s Covid-19 outbreak grows to 18 RELATED: Victoria lockdown to begin at midnight “It is essentially a repeat of the successful strategy from a couple of weeks ago.” If you were closed then, you will be closed now.

“If you are authorised to work then, you will be authorised to work now. “This will be a hard lockdown similar to, or identical to, what we did a couple of weeks ago. “We want to deal with this with a short, sharp lockdown, decisive action, not waiting, not dawdling, now is our time. “We’ve got to do this, otherwise it will get away with us and we, as more than any other part of our nation know, we don’t want this getting away from us and being locked down for months. That is why with a heavy heart but absolute necessity and determination to beat this, this Delta strain as we did a few weeks ago, that the chief health officer and public health team have recommended me and my colleagues that we lock down from 11:59pm tonight until 11:59pm next Tuesday night,” he said. “(If) we don’t drive these numbers down … they will ultimately get away from us. Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed the “hard lockdown” on Thursday afternoon. Melbourne will go into its fifth coronavirus lockdown tonight - its third lockdown this year - as health authorities work to contain two separate Delta strain clusters and a rapidly expanding list of exposure sites.
