The lockdown will come into effect at 8pm.
After recording eight new COVID-19 cases today, Victoria will go back into lockdown as of 8pm tonight (Thursday August 5).
What you need to know
- Victoria will go into lockdown from 8pm Thursday August 5
- The lockdown is expected to last for seven days
- The announcement comes following new mystery cases
Stay up to date with what’s happening in Melbourne here.
For the duration of the lockdown, Victorians will only be permitted to leave their homes for five reasons: shopping for essential items, authorised work or education, to exercise for up to two hours per day with no more than one other person, caregiving, or to get vaccinated.
The 5km travel limit will be reinstated and masks will remain mandatory at all times outside the home.
Public and private gatherings, excluding intimate partners and single bubbles, will not be permitted.
“We only get one chance to act fast,” said Premier Dan Andrews. “We’ve been through that long, long lockdown. We went through that last year.”
“I can’t tell you how disappointed I am to be here doing this again,” he said. “The alternative is we let this run, it gets away from us and our hospitals will be overwhelmed.”
Announcement of seven day lockdown to keep Victorians safe: pic.twitter.com/KhO8aLZ6OX
— Dan Andrews (@DanielAndrewsMP) August 5, 2021
For more information, visit the DHHS website.
