Now, a mere day later, there's eight new cases - six reported in this morning's official case numbers, and two more announced at a press conference earlier today - and Victoria is going back into lockdown.īy now, everyone is definitely familiar with the rules and restrictions from past lockdowns. Just yesterday, on Wednesday, August 4, Victoria celebrated its first doughnut day since early July, recording zero new COVID-19 cases in the state. Not that anyone needed any reminding, especially Melburnians, but the new lockdown demonstrates just how quickly things can change during the pandemic. Accessible versions of these documents will be available shortly from /YWhG4ptqr4 I am determined to do everything popular or otherwise to avoid that happening to us." We wish them well and we support them, but we do not want that here. He continued: "others are living that at the moment, others are having to deal with that at the moment. But my fear is if we were to wait a few days - and the advice to me from the experts if we were to wait even just a few days - there is every chance that instead of being locked down for a week, this gets away from us, we are potentially locked down until we all get vaccinated. I would prefer to wait two or three days, I would prefer we didn't have to make this decision now. In the press conference revealing the news, the Premier said: "I want to make it very clear - we only get one chance to act fast, only one chance to make difficult decisions that are the right decisions. At this stage, the stay-at-home restrictions will run for seven days, which means that the target end date is 8pm on Thursday, August 12. This new lockdown - Melbourne's sixth - was announced this afternoon by Premier Daniel Andrews in response to a growing number of locally acquired COVID-19 cases. Nine days after coming out of the state's last lockdown, Victoria will be placed back under stay-at-home conditions from 8pm today, Thursday, August 5.
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