BREAKING Victoria will enter a five-day lockdown from midnight tonight to curb a growing COVID-19 outbreak, Premier Daniel Andrews has announced.
Victoria will enter a snap lockdown from midnight on Thursday in a bid to stop the spread of the Delta COVID-19 variant, Premier Daniel Andrews has announced.
"That is why, with a heavy heart ... the Chief Health Officer and public health team have recommended to me and my colleagues that we lock down Victoria from 11:59pm tonight until 11:59pm next Tuesday night."This will be the state's fifth lockdown since the start of the pandemic and the third in 2021.
"In terms of business support, I'll have more to say as early as tomorrow and we will look to fast track payments principally to those who received payments last time."We would prefer this had not come to our state. We’d prefer we didn’t have to deal with these issues but this is so infectious. This is such a challenge that we must do this. You only get one chance to go hard and go fast.
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