Victoria's tough coronavirus restrictions have now started to ease as the state takes its first tentative steps towards 'COVID normal'. Here's everything you need to know: COVID19
State Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a $3 billion lifeline to help businesses cope with the extended COVID-19 shutdown.
But business owners say the unprecedented package won't be enough to keep many struggling businesses afloat.“It needs to be unprecedented in nature because the challenge that businesses large and small face is equally,” Mr Andrews said. “We want to get to the other side and we want to make sure that, yes, we’ve protected lives, but we’ve also protected livelihoods.But a number of hospitality industry groups and individual owners told the
the only way to help businesses to survive was to open the state up earlier, with Chin Chin owner Chris Lucas saying the package was a "drop in the ocean" for many.“Some businesses have not been operating since March. A lot of these have debts of hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
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