Lockdown lifting with two local cases Share AFTER three consecutive days of no new COVID-19 cases being infectious in the community, Victoria has exited hard lockdown. Students have been sent back to school, retail and gyms are reopening, restaurants are serving dine-in customers again, and community sport will return. Premier Daniel Andrews said “to every Victorian who checked in with our QR system, who got tested and quarantined, and stayed home to slow the spread of this virus, thank you – it’s because of you we’ve able to get on top of this Delta outbreak and open up our state.”