Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services urges the state's residents to stop trying to find ways to avoid restrictions aimed at keeping coronavirus numbers down.
The new restrictions will come intoThe number of cases in Britain has begun to rise sharply again in recent days.
Although testing is more widespread and the number of people in hospital is well below the peak of the outbreak, ministers fear it is beginning to slip out of control. "We need to act now to stop the virus spreading," Johnson was expected to say on Wednesday local time. "So we are simplifying and strengthening the rules on social contact — making them easier to understand and for the police to enforce."There were 2,460 new infections reported on Tuesday, 2,948 on Monday and 2,988 on Sunday — a sharp rise from levels of around 1,000 per day in August and attributed to high transmission among young people., and there will be exemptions for weddings, funerals and some organised team sports.
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