All residents of one locked-down public housing tower in Melbourne's inner-city will be required to isolate for a further nine days, with the remaining eight towers to return to the same level of restrictions as the rest of Melbourne by the end of Thursday
All residents of one locked-down public housing tower in Melbourne's inner-city will be required to isolate for a further nine days, with the remaining eight towers to return to the same level of restrictions as the rest of Melbourne by the end of Thursday.
"Acknowledging this is in some respects akin to an aged care facility, there will be continued support and continued protection for those residents, given their age and for many of them their health status makes them especially vulnerable," the Premier said. "The other thing we will obviously flag with all residents is a daily check in, a single point of contact, and really emphasising that for anyone who develops symptoms at any time, there will be testing available," Professor Sutton said.
Police Minister Lisa Neville acknowledged it would be a "really tough" nine days for the residents remaining in a hard lockdown."We can't allow people to be moving across floors or in lifts, because it is such a high-risk environment in that particular tower." Seven workers from six aged care centres have tested positive, putting six facilities into lockdown in addition to four aged care centres locked down on Wednesday due to confirmed cases among four staff and one resident.
Federal deputy chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth revealed the national body of health experts had decided that people in areas of high community transmission, such as in Melbourne's lockdown area, should now wear masks in situations where they could not maintain social distancing.
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