BREAKING: Following postcodes to go back into lockdown from midnight TOMORROW until at least 29 July. They are:
3038
3064
3047
3060
3012
3032
3055
3042
3021
3046
@7NewsMelbourne

In those areas, there are only 4 reasons to leave home:
Food
Medical
Exercise
Work, education

Following services in those areas will be CLOSED:
- Community sport
- beauty
- gyms
- swimming pools
- cinemas
- theatres
- TABs in pubs
- play centres
- golf
- fishing

Premier says “only leave your homes if you NEED to, only if you really need to” @7NewsMelbourne

• Victoria Police will be actively enforcing this lockdown, will issue fines.
• If you live in these areas & are already away for school holidays, you can finish your trip. But if you haven’t left yet, you can’t from tomorrow.
• Gvt will provide support to tourism businesses

• Gvt will give businesses in those areas forced to close an urgent $5k grant

WHY VICTORIA? Premier has received a genomics briefing. Says significant amount of northern suburbs outbreaks are attributable to hotel quarantine staff. @7NewsMelbourne

A former judge has been appointed to conduct an inquiry into hotel quarantine processes in Victoria. @7NewsMelbourne

Premier has asked PM @ScottMorrisonMP to divert all flights away from Melbourne airport for 2 weeks. @7NewsMelbourne

He has also asked for:
100 team leaders
200 clinical staff
500 Commonwealth public servants to help with community engagement

AIR TRAVEL:
Diversions are for international passengers
They’ll be diverted to other cities in Aus
Begins with today’s flights
Move is designed to stem the flow of people in hotel quarantine @7NewsMelbourne

@VictorianCHO calls this a “heartbreaking turn in the epidemic” but had to make the call when numbers began to grow in the double digits the last few days @7NewsMelbourne

Premier says he considered mandatory testing. BUT there’s more physical contact in forcing someone to undergo a test than in them shutting the door on a medics face. Legally ppl posing an unreasonable risk to public health can be detained @7NewsMelbourne

RELATIONSHIPS :
Government has not decided whether you can visit a partner in a lockdown suburb. Hoping to have an answer before tomorrow night @7NewsMelbourne