MASKS
- No longer required at airports.
- Must still be worn on public transport, taxis, ride shares, and planes, as well as sensitive settings such as hospitals and care facilities.
QUARANTINE & ISOLATION
- Positive cases must still isolate for seven days from the day they took their test but may now leave home to drive a household member directly to or from education or work without leaving their vehicle.
- They can also leave home to get medical care, a COVID-19 test, or in an emergency, including the risk of harm.
VACCINATION & WORK
- Rules requiring general workers to work from home unless they are double-vaccinated are lifted. Employers can consider setting COVID-19 vaccination policies as part of their own workplace conditions.
- Government imposed third dose mandates in education, food distribution, meat and seafood processing and quarantine accommodation sectors will be lifted. In line with other jurisdictions around Australia, COVID-19 vaccination policies will be the responsibility of individual workplaces to consider as part of their workplace conditions.
- Three COVID-19 vaccine doses are still required for workers in residential aged care and disability care, healthcare, and custodial and emergency services, including police.
VISITOR CAPS
- Visitor caps to care facilities, including residential aged care and disability are removed. Residents can see any number of people, provided they test negative on a rapid antigen test that day. If a test is unavailable, a person can only be present for limited reasons such as end-of-life visits. Centres may introduce their own visitor rules to respond to local risk.
More information will be published after the orders come into effect at
11:59pm on Friday 24 June on coronavirus.vic.gov.au
Or call the Business Victoria hotline on 13 22 15. |
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