Murray himself will spend the next six weeks under the harshest curfew in australia's history, and victoria's governor Daniel Andrews admitted that the state's government strategy had failed to contain deadly Coronavirus and announced new restrictions on melbourne residents.
Mr. Andrews declared Virginia a state of disaster and implored it to assume a "collective responsibility" to prevent the spread of COVID-19". Brett Sutton, the Chief Health Officer said that the restrictions on entering phase IV had exposed the gravity of the current situation and that a "shocking and awe-inspiring" strategy was needed to deliver a clearer and louder message.
A move that inevitably puts businesses in trouble and costs tens or even hundreds of thousands of jobs will have far-reaching economic implications for future generations and the country as a whole. According to Mr. Andrews, he had no choice but to take extreme measures. "If we adopt a (previous) strategy to reduce the numbers to very low controllable levels that can be reopened, then we may not reopen until the end of this year ," he said.
"That's a six-month strategy, and it does n' t work.
"These decisions are made because not doing so is not enough to guarantee our security... Every day must stand here to report more and more people death, which is unacceptable to me. We need to push down the numbers. "
Melbourne residents will stay at home from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. during the curfew, except for those who need the necessary work or emergency medical care, according to the fourth phase, which came into effect on Sunday night.
Public transport will be reduced during the curfew. leave homes are allowed to exercise only during the day, and can only exercise for up to one hour within five kilometers of the residence.
Shopping is limited to one person per household per day and within 5 km of residence unless people live 5 km away from the supermarket.
wedding banned for at least the next six weeks, the funeral will continue under existing restrictions. All TAFE and university studies, as well as all school education, will be completed at home, except for those employees who are allowed to work and children who are considered vulnerable.
Starting Thursday, kindergarten and early childhood education will be limited to children of approved employees and vulnerable children.
These adjustments will continue at least until 13 September.
Within eight days of sunday, the number of new coronal virus death in vizhou doubled, with 760 active cases of unknown origin —— with 3163 still under investigation due to the state's contact tracking team.
As proof of this, mr Andrews almost admitted that the state would have to face an increasing number of interventions to prevent cases while spending christmas with the extended family, with 6322 active cases and 671 new cases recorded sunday.
Scott Morrison, the Prime Minister described the harsher blockade as a "regrettable" necessity, saying that the lives of all Australians depended on the state following the rules and staying at home.
"All Vizhou people now need to do their part ," the Prime Minister said ." That is to say, if you are ill, stay at home, don't go to work, if you have any symptoms, no matter how mild, you have to be tested, and if you are positive or in contact with venereal disease positive example, you have to be quarantined for 14 days.
"The life of your fellow Australians depends on it. "
Federal health minister Greg Hunt declared sunday "one of the toughest days in the history of the state ".
Mr Andrews decided to impose a fourth-phase restriction starting at 6 p.m. on sunday, after a series government state meetings continued until saturday night and throughout sunday morning, with the governor's cabinet crisis committee, health officials and federal government, including mr. Morrison. Earlier, members of the national cabinet held a conference call on Friday.
Shortly after Mr. Andrews's lengthy press conference, the Prime Minister issued a brief statement in fb agreeing that the move was necessary to stop virus dissemination. "I know it's been a tough day for people in the state of Virginia, because there's news that the state will face more restrictions to fight epidemic ," he said. "
These regrettable measures are necessary given the high rate of community transmission in the state.
"There are now more than 6300 active cases in the state of Virginia, with little sign of a slowdown in new cases and 671 new cases are reported today. "
According to Professor Sutton, the wider and deeper blockade would "definitely reduce the number of cases ", but there was no guarantee. "These shocking and awe-inspiring measures are designed to make people truly understand that we are entering a challenging phase ," he said. "
"We know it's going to be harder, and we know it's not like the first wave, but it's partly because people are tired and complacent that they can go shopping out of necessity.
"But I think the message is loud and clear. "
Queues at Costco in Docklands ahead of the start of the 8pm curfew in Melbourne on Sunday. Picture: Paul Jeffers
Professor Sutton said that, despite the failure to contain the increasing number of cases in Virginia through phase III restrictions, the situation would have been thousands without such measures. During this period ,20,000 cases have been avoided since the third phase of the restrictions, but this is not enough.
"If you look at the daily numbers through the eyes of health care workers, you can't tolerate 500 cases a day, a dozen people a day death, new outbreaks and new infections among elderly care residents every day.
"This is intolerable. Figures must change. everyone to play their part. "
From 11:59 p.m. on wednesday, all parts of the state will enter the third phase of the home order, which allows them to buy necessities, exercise or consult leave home only for work or school.
Mitchell county (Mitchell Shire), north of melbourne, has been part of melbourne's third phase of the blockade since july 9th and will be restored from wednesday to a part of rural vizhou.
On Sunday, there were 355 active cases in local government districts in 31 rural areas of Virginia, up from 14 cases in the LGA of six municipal districts on July 9.
Andrews is expected to issue more announcements on Monday about certain workplace and industry restrictions.
The opposition party leader Michael O'Brien said Mr. Andrews had admitted that his government had lost control of the state.
"Labour's government failures in hotel segregation, testing and access tracking have led to the most severe restrictions in our history for millions of Vijos ," Mr. O' Brien said.
