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Day one of Victoria's state-wide lockdown has left thousands of small business owners and casual employees out of pocket and on edge. Pressure is mounting for the state and federal governments to deliver a rescue package after non-essential businesses such as gyms and florists were forced to close. Eli Hazell, who owns seven pilates studios across Melbourne, told 9News she has been forced to stand down about 50 staff amid the lockdown, many of whom are casual workers. "They're all living pay cheque to pay cheque and we can't really help them out because we've got rent due next week, and no in...

Five main locations of concern connected to Victorian outbreak28/05/2021|6min There are five locations of particular concern related to Victoria’s COVID outbreak, according to Department of Health and Human Services Testing Commander Secretary Jeroen Weimar. "So we now seeing the significant risk in particular at those social venues, the bars and clubs, the exposure list there, and we are very keen to ensure that people who have been to those places at those times come forward very quickly," he said. Mr Weimar said there were more than 120 exposures sites across the state but the five of p...

The founder of Jim's Mowing has unleashed on the Victorian Government over the seven-day Covid lockdown, declaring they have 'destroyed businesses and lives'. Jim Penman wrote the open letter following the Government's decision to plunge the state into its fourth major lockdown in 12 months from 11.59pm on May 27. He addressed Acting Premier James Merlino and claimed the Government closed the state because of 'your incompetent handling of quarantine and mismanagement of Covid-19 cases'. The letter comes after Mr Merlino and Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton were unclear about whether garden ...

Contact tracing ‘within capacity’ as Victoria resists interstate offers of help We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton insists Victoria has enough contact tracers to deal with the outbreak that has plunged Victoria into a snap lockdown, despite the number of close contacts rising to 15,000. Victoria has so far not taken up an offer from other states and territories to send additional trained contact tracers to assist with the cluster that grew by four cases to 30 on the first da...

The acting premier, James Merlino, said: “I’ve contacted the prime minister this morning. “The request will be for around 160 ADF staff for at least the next fortnight to assist our authorised officers in door-knocking … If we have those additional ADF staff pairing up with authorised officers we are effectively doubling our capacity to do that really important work over the next few weeks.” On Friday morning the health minister, Greg Hunt, said the federal government would assist with ADF personnel, additional contact tracing and testing but the Victorian government ...