Melbourne’s COVID-19 circuit-breaker lockdown was originally due to end this week at 11.59pm on Thursday, however we have now been advised that the lockdown is set to be extended for at least another seven days.
The extended lockdown comes as a result of the state recording six new locally acquired cases, meaning that the total outbreak numbers are not at 60 cases.
51,033 test results were received on Tuesday, among six coming up as positive. At the moment, a total of 20,585 vaccination doses have been administered across the state.
As per the usual, Victorians will still only be allowed to leave home for the same five reasons: shopping for groceries, work/study, exercise, giving or receiving care and to get vaccinated.
An update to the five reasons rule comes in for Year 11 and Year 12 students who are returning to face to face learning will have their radius extended to 10 kilometres.
As reported by ABC News, Acting Premier James Merlino said, “If we let this thing run its course, it will explode. We’ve got to run this to ground because if we don’t, people will die. And if that happens, it’s our most vulnerable. It’s our parents, it’s our grandparents, it’s Victorians with underlying conditions or compromised immunity.”
See below for the most recent tier 1 COVID-19 exposure sites:
Sunday 30th May
- Coles Spencer Street Outlet, 201 Spencer Street, Docklands, between 12pm and 1pm
Saturday 29th May
- Arcare Maidstone Aged Care (Magnolia Unit), 31 Hampstead Rd, Maidstone, between 12:00am and 11:59pm
- Arcare Maidstone Aged Care (Communal Facilities), 31 Hampstead Rd, Maidstone, between 12:00am and 11:59pm
Friday 28th May
- BlueCross Western Gardens, 40 Anderson Road, Sunshine, between 12:00pm and 11:59pm
- BlueCross Western Gardens (Whitten Way — Low Care Unit), (Ferguson Grove — High Care Unit), 40 Anderson Road, Sunshine, between 4:00pm and 9:30pm
- Arcare Maidstone Aged Care (Magnolia Unit), 31 Hampstead Rd, Maidstone, between 12:00am and 11:59pm
- Arcare Maidstone Aged Care (Communal Facilities), 31 Hampstead Rd, Maidstone, between 12:00am and 11:59pm
- ALDI South Melbourne, 100 Market Street, South Melbourne, between 2:00pm and 3:30pm
- Male staff bathrooms, Brimbank Shopping Centre, Corner of Neale and Station Rds, Deer Park, between 8:45am and 6:30pm
- Muffin Break, Brimbank Shopping Centre, Corner of Neale and Station Rds, Deer Park, between 6:45am and 6:30pm
- Food Court, Brimbank Shopping Centre, Corner of Neale and Station Rds, Deer Park, between 8:45am and 6:30pm
- Slades Beverages, 46/40-50 Keon Parade, Thomastown, between 6:00am and 2:30pm
Check out the list of exposure sites here.
