A policeman patrols on a motorcycle in Melbourne on February 12, 2021, after authorities ordered a five-day state-wide lockdown starting at midnight local time to stamp out a … Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Melbourne emerged from a 111-day lockdown in October following a fresh wave of infections that peaked at 725 cases a day. "This is not the 2020 virus, this is different, this is something very, very different," he said. Facebook Twitter. This is not the position Victorians wanted to be in but I can’t have a situation where, in two weeks’ time, we look back and wish we had taken these decisions now,” Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews told reporters on Saturday. ... Daniel Andrews will step up in just a few minutes to make a potentially major announcement about a snap five-day lockdown in Melbourne. I’m sitting here making 178 heartbreaking phone calls to see if I can get them to rebook,” said Will Baa, owner of Lover, a restaurant in the hip district of Windsor. Well really, just here for the fun times! The outbreak linked to the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel at Melbourne Airport has grown to 13 cases, with five new cases confirmed on Thursday. The Holiday Inn outbreak is thought to have started when an infected returned traveller used a nebuliser — an aerosol-creating medical device banned in hotel quarantine — which caused the virus to spread throughout the hotel floor they were on. From 11.59pm on Friday 9 April 2021, Victoria has further relaxed its COVIDSafe settings. Thousands were forced to leave before midnight, sometimes in the middle of matches, on Friday. Mr Andrews said the five-day shutdown was announced on public health advice to avoid a longer lockdown in the future. Australia’s second-most populous state of Victoria, including capital Melbourne, entered a five-day lockdown on Saturday as authorities raced to prevent a third wave of COVID-19 cases set off by the highly infections UK variant. How resilience and compliance saw Melbourne through another lockdown. Just fingers crossed that it only does extend for the short period of five days,” he said. By the time cases of blood clotting in patients who had received the AstraZeneca vaccine had begun to emerge on the Continent (in March), Britain had already administered 11 million doses of the vaccine (the first having been given in January). The Australian Open tournament continues on Saturday without any audience following the new lockdown order [Loren Elliott/Reuters]More broadly, Australia is rated among the world’s most successful countries in tackling the pandemic, largely because of decisive lockdowns and borders sealed to all but a trickle of travellers. “It’s the busiest weekend of the year for us. Mr Andrews confirmed people would be fined for breaches of the rules. Michail Pervolarakis of Greece greets fans during day four of the 2021 ATP Cup on February 5 in Melbourne. The purpose of these directions is to address the serious public health risk posed to the State of Victoria by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). "I'll have more to say about the future of hotel quarantine very soon," Mr Andrews said. 6.20pm on Feb 17, 2021 Breaking: 50 per cent crowds allowed back at the Tennis tomorrow The Australian Open will return to approximately 50 per cent capacity from Thursday, with nearly 7,500 people allowed into Melbourne Park per session going forward. Dozens injured after train derails in Egypt, Three killed, two wounded in shooting at Wisconsin tavern, War-torn Syria to hold presidential elections on May 26, US backs Japan’s Fukushima plans despite S Korea’s concerns, ‘I still have nightmares’: Surviving Australia’s Kangaroo Point, COVID roundup: India’s record cases, no masks in Israel, Ukraine-Turkey cooperation has its limits, Saudi, Iranian officials held direct talks in Iraq: Report, Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. Australia extends Melbourne lockdown despite drop in cases. Lockdown Life. February 12, 2021. COVID-19 vaccine update. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. ... anyone arriving in NSW from Victoria after 11.59pm on Friday 12 February 2021 … 13.00-13.52 on 6/2/2021. It is the third lockdown imposed on Melbourne. Melbourne lockdown lifted after zero new virus cases recorded. Australia's second-biggest city will this week exit its coronavirus lockdown following nearly … Cluster that triggered the renewed restrictions were staying at a quarantine hotel at Melbourne Airport. West Melbourne: Kebab Kingz, 438 Spencer St. 23.24-00.15 on 29/1/2021… These changes are designed to balance getting Victorians back to doing the things they love while keeping in place measures to … 12/02/2021. Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said given the way the virus was spreading, "we need to do it now". He said the virus was "moving at lightspeed". The entire terminal has now been made a Tier 1 exposure site, meaning everyone who was at the airport between 4:45am and 2:00pm must be tested and quarantine for 14 days. Melbourne: Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city, will relax its third lockdown on Wednesday after authorities contained the spread of a COVID-19 cluster centered on hotel quarantine. "We will continue to assess the impact of the UK strain of the virus on our program and international arrivals, and will provide more information on the duration of this pause soon.". The lockdown, which has shut restaurants and cafes except for takeaway, hit just as Melbourne had geared up for the biggest weekend in nearly a year, with Lunar New Year celebrations, Valentine’s Day and Australian Open crowds. Taylors Lakes: Off Ya Tree Watergardens, 399 Melton Highway. 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The visual *really* hits different. 13 Feb 2021 Australia’s second-most populous state of Victoria, including capital Melbourne, entered a five-day lockdown on Saturday as authorities raced to … the eight-and-a-half hour high-risk exposure period at a Brunetti cafe, Download the ABC News app and subscribe to our range of news alerts for the latest on how the pandemic is impacting the world, Up to 5,000 people could be affected by Melbourne Airport exposure site, health authorities say, Charting the jab: More than 60 countries are vaccinating their people faster than Australia, We put your questions about coronavirus vaccines to health experts — here's what they said, Know someone feeling concerned about the COVID jab? That case has yet to be included in the country’s total of 25 COVID-19 deaths. A number of Australian states, territories, and cities have implemented lockdowns in response to the pandemic. The Victoria state government has yet to say whether spectators will be allowed to return to the Australian Open tennis tournament under the same conditions as before the five-day lockdown. Australia's pubs, bars, clubs, casinos, cinemas, theatres, places of worship and gyms are Face masks will need to be worn indoors and outdoors if you are outside your own home, and no visitors will be allowed in homes. Breaking News: Phase 1 of Australia lockdown implementations are now in place. 8:01pm Feb 12, 2021 Victoria will plunge into stage four restrictions for a five-day snap lockdown from 11.59pm tonight until Wednesday, Premier Daniel Andrews has confirmed. The government says these will be in place for at least 6-months. Places of worship and religious gatherings and ceremonies will not be permitted, and funerals will be capped at 10 people. From masks, gatherings and exercise, to hospitals, school and work — here's what will close in Victoria's five-day lockdown. 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Mr Andrews said by the time positive cases had been detected by contact tracers, "they have already infected their close contacts, their family, people they live with, people they spend time with that makes it incredibly difficult to do contact tracing because there is no gap between the first case, their close contacts and people they spent time with". From 11:59pm Friday, all of Victoria will return to stage 4 lockdown restrictions, meaning there are only four main reasons to leave the home: shopping for essential supplies, care and caregiving, exercise and essential work. The government just turned off a $90b tap of cash. Victoria will enter a "short, sharp circuit-breaker" lockdown for five days to respond to fears the highly infectious UK strain of coronavirus has spread in the community, Premier Daniel Andrews has confirmed. The lockdown has an end date of 11.59pm on Wednesday, February 17 but boxed-in residents, who have had their hopes of an end to restrictions dashed in … We asked you what you learnt from a year of lockdowns. The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in Queensland commenced Monday 22 February 2021. "We know this will be difficult news for people who are overseas and want to get home, but our focus right now has to be taking this short, sharp action in response to this outbreak," a Government spokesperson said. The 2021 Melbourne to Warrnambool, scheduled to be held tomorrow, will be postponed due to the Victorian lockdown. “It is quite soul destroying. RECAP: Look back on the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic. The Australian Open is going ahead without crowds despite Melbourne’s lockdown. "You can test everybody every day … but it's a different challenge now, it's not the 2020 challenge, it's a very different virus.". Among the “essential” work, play at the Australian Open, the year’s first Grand Slam tennis event which runs to February 21, continued, but fans were banned through Wednesday. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Melbourne last year endured a 111-day lockdown, one of the strictest and longest in the world at the time, to stem a coronavirus outbreak which led to more than 800 deaths. One new locally acquired case was confirmed in the past 24 hours, Victoria health authorities said on Saturday, taking the number of active cases in the state to 20. All of the locally acquired cases are linked to the Holiday Inn outbreak, with workers from the hotel and their close contacts confirmed to have contracted the virus. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Melbourne Lockdown, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. New Zealand on Saturday also reported one death of a patient with COVID-19. On 9 April 2021 the Australian Government updated its advice on the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Organisers of the Melbourne to Warrnambool have moved swiftly to lock in a new date for the 2021 edition of … COVIDSafe settings relaxed. Earlier today, Premier Daniel Andrews announced that stage 4 lockdown will stay in place for another two weeks after the initial date of Sunday 13 September, until at least Monday 28 September. Saturday, February 13, 2021. Saw a couple of comments in here asking how long metropolitan Melbourne's been in lockdown, and since I have so much time on my hands I figured I'd make a spreadsheet and find out! The Stay Safe Directions (Victoria) (No 18) come into force at 6:00pm on 26 March 2021 and … Andrews said Prime Minister Scott Morrison had agreed to stop all international flights to Melbourne through Wednesday, after five planes en route, with about 100 passengers, land on Saturday. The "working assumption" is that all people infected in the cluster have the same B117 UK strain. Streets in downtown Melbourne, the state’s capital, and its suburbs were almost empty early on Saturday, with people ordered to stay home except for essential shopping, two hours of outdoor exercise, caregiving, or work that cannot be done from home. (9News) Stores are closed, shopping malls and cafes are empty, and streets are deserted as Victoria begins five days of stage four restrictions with the lockdown set to last until midnight on Wednesday. People cross a street in Melbourne on Friday, … The country entered a general nationwide lockdown on 23 March 2020 during the first wave of the pandemic, which was lifted on 15 May. Case attended venue. Australian officials on Sunday extended a strict virus lockdown of the country's … The Australian city of Melbourne will exit lockdown from Wednesday after recording no new Covid-19 cases for the first time since June. Victoria state … Of recent concern for authorities is the eight-and-a-half hour high-risk exposure period at a Brunetti cafe at Melbourne Airport's Terminal 4. He suggested changes to the intake of international arrivals may be imminent. Mr Andrews said the "hyper-infectious" UK strain was presenting in a manner that "is a very significant concern to us". Exercise and shopping will be limited to within 5 kilometres of the home. The Melbourne lockdown has been turned into a 2020 calendar, giving this whole written-off year a whole new perspective that hits different. The Australian Government is vaccinating residents and workers in aged care and disability accommodation in Queensland. As of today, we've been under restrictions for 164 days and stay at home directions for 124 days. "And that it is moving at a velocity that has not been seen anywhere in our country over the course of these last 12 months.". Melbourne Lockdown Timeline. "This circuit-breaker — and again, nobody wants all the consequences of a circuit-breaker, but the alternative is potentially devastating.". The cluster that triggered the renewed restrictions were staying in a quarantine hotel at Melbourne Airport. Melbourne wakes to empty streets as lockdown begins. Under the rules, schools and tertiary education will be closed, public gatherings are banned, people must work from home when they can, and weddings will be banned except for on compassionate grounds. Find out how to opt in for more Victorian news. He now wants to run at the Olympics. ... 2021 — 11.34pm. The first two lockdowns were implemented when infections spread in March 2020, and then in July, which lasted for about four months. Here's what to say. Daniel Andrews announces snap coronavirus lockdown for Victoria as Holiday Inn outbreak grows Posted 3 m minutes ago Fri Friday 12 Feb February 2021 at 2:16am Share All international passenger flights into Melbourne will be paused from Saturday, excluding those already in transit. No deaths from COVID-19 were recorded in Australia from 28 December 2020 until 13 April 2021, when one death occurred in Queensland. Matt Burrows Professor Sutton said 75 per cent of the cases detected in Victorian hotel quarantine had the UK strain. No such occurrences had been reported publically in Britain, but not for a lack of cases, according to the findings of a new investigation. The Premier said the five-day lockdown, similar to snap restrictions imposed in Brisbane and Perth, was due to end at 11:59pm on Wednesday. Tue 16 Feb 2021 20.36 EST 7 The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, has announced the end of a five-day snap lockdown described as a “short, sharp circuit breaker” to … There are, however, some changes to restrictions taking place from Sunday 13 September: Two people or a household can meet for up to two hours of exercise. We're here for all your lockdown information. Anti-lockdown protests flared in Melbourne as hundreds gathered to protest against the rules on Friday night. We offer tailored front pages for local audiences in each state and territory. As of 16 April 2021, Australia has reported 29,484 cases, 25,486+ recoveries, and 910 deaths, with Victoria's second wave accounting for nearly 75 percent of cases and 90 percent of fatalities. International arrivals have been paused as part of the lockdown. “A lot of people will be hurting today. Close to 30 flights arrived and departed to various Australian locations during the 4:45am to 1:15pm window on Tuesday. But we’re resilient. 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