Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has reimposed stage 3 restrictions in hotspot suburbs from 11:59 pm tomorrow night until 29 July

“There will only be four reasons that you are permitted to leave your house and only if you really have to. For work or school, for care or care giving, for daily exercise, for food and other essentials. They are the acceptable reasons to leave, but only if you need to.”

  • Postcode 3012: Brooklyn, Kingsville, Maidstone, Tottenham, West Footscray.
  • Postcode 3021: Alban Vale, Kealba, Kings Park, St Albans.
  • Postcode 3032: Ascot Vale, High Point City, Maribyrnong, Travancore.
  • Postcode 3038: Keilor Downs, Keilor Lodge, Taylors Lakes, Watergardens.
  • Postcode 3042: Airport West, Keilor Park, Niddrie.
  • Postcode 3046: Glenroy, Hadfield, Oak Park.
  • Postcode 3047: Broadmeadows, Dallas, Jacana.
  • Postcode 3055: Brunswick South, Brunswick West, Moonee Vale, Moreland West.
  • Postcode 3060: Fawkner.
  • Postcode 3064: Craigieburn, Donnybrook, Mickleham, Roxburgh Park and Kalkallo.

Andrews says police will be actively patrolling these areas.

“There will only be four reasons that you are permitted to leave your house and only if you really have to. For work or school, for care or care giving, for daily exercise, for food and other essentials. They are the acceptable reasons to leave, but only if you need to,” Andrew says.

The decision comes after an “unacceptably” high number of new COVID-19 cases in Victoria.

“That is an unacceptably high number and one that poses a real threat to all of us, not just in those hotspot suburbs but indeed in every suburb and ultimately every community across our state,” Andrews said to the media this afternoon.

There were 17,416 tests performed yesterday with over 93,000 tests in the testing blitz over the past three days. 

He says 928 people refused to be tested in Broadmeadows alone.

“Now I can’t change that. That’s happened. All I can do is encourage those people come forward and get tested today.”

Additionally those who do not live in the above postcodes “shouldn’t be going into those postcodes” for the next four weeks unless it is for work, and only for work that you have to do in person. 

“You shouldn’t be going into those postcodes unless it was, for instance, to get care or to give care…

“We have to limit the number of people who are going in and out of these postcodes and sadly we have to ensure that residents – families within these postcodes – do not leave their home other than for those four permitted reasons, and again, only when they need to.”

Schools within the postcodes will remain open at this stage and if you live in the postcodes but work elsewhere, you will be able to continue to travel but only for working purposes. 

Andrews says he will not be commenting on the border reopening decisions by other states but says people in the hotspots should not be travelling to NSW.

“These are extraordinary steps, these are not things we have had to do in the past, but such is the nature of this virus, it is so wildly infectious, that if we don’t take these steps now, we will finish up in a situation [where] we will be locking down every postcode.”

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