VIC COVID-19 Update: Moorabool Shire enters 7 day lockdown
Victoria's Acting Chief Health Officer has declared Moorabool Shire will enter a seven-day lockdown commencing at 11:59pm tonight, Friday 1 October, with restrictions the same as those in the City of Latrobe, Mitchell Shire and metropolitan Melbourne (excluding the curfew).
Caseloads in Moorabool Shire have increased in recent days, with 32 active cases in this Local Government Area (LGA) as of 1 October.
The public health teams have significant concerns about onward transmission and have determined that the seven-day lockdown is needed to limit growth in cases, as it did in the City of Ballarat, Greater Geelong and Surf Coast Shire.
Under lockdown restrictions, you can only leave home for limited reasons: necessary goods and services, caregiving or compassionate reasons (including medical care and getting a COVID-19 test), authorised work or permitted education, exercise and outdoor social interaction in limited groups, and getting a COVID-19 vaccine locally.
You can also leave home to visit your intimate partner or single social bubble buddy. No other visitors are allowed in the home. Shopping, exercise and outdoor social interaction will be limited to 15km from your home. Masks will be mandatory indoors and outdoors. Remember to wear masks on public transport.
You have four hours a day for exercise and outdoor social interaction. You can meet with one other person, or if everyone is fully vaccinated up to five people from two households can meet up. Dependants can also join you.
You can't leave the Moorabool Shire area and travel elsewhere in regional Victoria other than for limited reasons, such as authorised work and permitted education, care and compassionate reasons, visiting an intimate partner, to get a test and necessary goods and services (only if they can't be obtained locally).
Locals are asked to be on high alert for symptoms and get tested if any develop. Two new sites for testing are opening in Melton this weekend in addition to existing sites in Ballarat, Daylesford, Melton, Melton West, Redan and Sebastopol. You can also leave the Moorabool Shire if you're going to an adjacent LGA to get a vaccine.
