Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, announced the restrictions that have been eased for both metro Melbourne and regional Victoria from midnight last night, and those due to be relaxed on 1 November 2020.
A reminder that fitted face masks are mandatory in Victoria and must be worn whenever you leave home. From 11 October 2020, Victorians MUST wear a fitted face mask and cannot substitute that with scarves, bandanas, face shields, snoods or any other such unapproved face mask.
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Metro Melbourne
Effective Monday 19 October
- No time limit on leaving the home for exercise or socialising outdoors
- Travel distance will move to 25 kilometres
- 10 people from two households can gather outdooors
- Tennis, skate parks and golf will open
- Indoor pools open for one-on-one hydrotherapy with health professionals only; 30 swimmers permitted at outdoor pools
- Hairdressers will reopen
- Real estate auctions can proceed with max 10 people. Commercial real estate inspections can be held
- Non-essential outdoor home maintenance, repairs, renovations and house painting can occur with maximum five workers. Solo or automated carwashing and pool cleaning will be allowed. Mobile or home business pet grooming allowed
- Outdoor photography allowed
- Full return of allied health services
Regional Victoria
Effective Monday 19 October
- Two people plus dependants are allowed into the home. The bubble is gone, you can have as many different families visit you but they can only be two adults and dependants at a time per day
- Hospitality venues can increase their capacity to 70 people outside and 40 people inside – four groups of 10, instead of two groups of 10
- Outdoor religious gatherings will increase to 20 people
- Indoor pools will open for 18 and under, a maximum of 20 swimmers
- One-on-one hydrotherapy with health professionals will also be allowed
- Libraries, toy libraries will open again, a maximum of 20 people
- Households can visit a care facility rather than one person at a time
Metro Melbourne
Effective 11:59pm on Sunday, 1 November 2020
- 2 people plus dependents, once a day, will be able to visit homes (Not a bubble, not exclusive)
- Retail will reopen
- Hospitality with max 20 inside and 50 outside will reopen
- Beauty and personal services will return
- Contact sport for under-18 and non-contact sport for adults to recommence
- Max 20 outside for religious gatherings
- Maximum 10 people at weddings, 20 mourners at funerals
- Outdoor seated entertainment can host 50, or 25 per cent of the venue’s fixed seat capacity
Regional Victoria
Effective 11:59pm on Sunday, 1 November 2020
- Non-contact indoor physical recreation for under 18-year-olds, eg dance classes, will be allowed again with a maximum of 20 people
- Non-contact indoor community support for under 18-year-olds with limits on spectators will be allowed
Mr Andrews also announced that Melbourne residents with property in regional Victoria will be permitted to travel to those properties, with certain conditions.
“If you have a property in regional Victoria, and you want to travel to that property and you are in metropolitan Melbourne, to make it ready for either flood or fire, the usual activity that goes on in October/November every year, there will be a process in consultation with your local council from Wednesday next week to go and do those important works.
“It will be upon the issuance by your council of a fire prevention notice that legally requires you to go and do the work.
“This is not an invitation to go and have a couple of days in regional Victoria and essentially move into regional Victoria without due reason. It is where you have a fire prevention notice, that letter of support from your council will also be with instructions from Victoria Police and the Chief Health Officer that the restrictions that apply and the rules that apply in Melbourne will travel with you when you go to your fire-prone second property.
“Whatever it may be … do the necessary work, whether it be around flood because we do have the bureau is forecasting significant rainfall activity throughout the next couple of months.
“I will not go to through too much on that, we will put up the information so people have detail well ahead of Wednesday but this has been an issue that has been raised consistently and we have listened and we have a framework around it but I stress again it is not an invitation for people who really do not have fire clean-up to do or flood preparedness to do to use this as an opportunity to travel to regional Victoria.”
IMAGE: Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne – Visit Victoria
