What you need to know about Melbourne's public housing lockdowns easing

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What you need to know about Melbourne's public housing lockdowns easing
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Missed the Premier's update about the Melbourne public housing lockdown? Here's everything you need to know.

That means you can leave the house for grocery shopping, exercise, work or education and medical care or caregiving.

"The reason it isn't immediate is that we can't afford to see a couple of thousand people try and exit straight away when they know they are able to move out," Ms Neville said. But you can leave your apartment for medical care and supervised daily exercise, a slight relaxation of the previous rules, but Ms Neville said the details were still being finessed.

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