BREAKING: Country Victorians will be allowed to head back to the pub and welcome visitors to their homes, Premier DanielAndrewsMP has announced.
People will still not be permitted to go to their second residences. "That’s simply not on," Mr Andrews said.
The 14-day average for Melbourne is now 52.9 and there are 4,282 'mystery' cases from an unknown source.Deputy Chief Health Officer Professor Allen Cheng said, "clearly it's better to announce no new deaths yesterday compared to 20 or 30 deaths we were reporting a month ago". Professor Cheng said authorities were still keeping a close eye on the cluster in the area, and Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton was speaking directly to multicultural community leaders.
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