Packed footy crowds and restaurant dining could be transformed for the next decade by COVID. Masks will also become a feature of life as Melbourne adapts to our ‘new normal’. Here’s some of what could change.
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Metropolitan Melbourne will enter the city’s controversial curfew for the final time after the strict measure was scrapped under the second step from lockdown. Under the changes, 127,000 Melburnians are set to return to work, and majority of schoolchildren will hit the classroom next month.
The wife of drug smuggler John Nikolic has refused to accept appeal papers, which would see her hauled back to court in Fiji. But proceedings might go ahead without her.
As Melbourne’s lockdown drags on, business owners on popular retail and dining strips in Footscray and St Kilda say their dreams are being shattered as debts mount and warn they may be forced to close down when the city finally opens up.
The heartbroken son of one of Victoria’s coronavirus victims is leading a class action against the security companies tasked with handling Melbourne’s botched hotel quarantine system which sparked the state’s catastrophic second wave.
Despite many families desperate to get their kids active amid tough lockdowns rules, a costly COVID-19 rule may cause more heartache with many kids facing the prospect of missing out on junior cricket this season. Here’s why.
Dozens of potentially infectious Victorians have been fined for breaching self-isolation requirements, with nearly $200,000 in fines slapped on rule-breakers since August. It comes as Premier Daniel Andrews says coronavirus numbers are still too high after 11 new cases and two deaths were recorded overnight.
A nurse deemed a significant risk to vulnerable patients after she was busted financially exploiting a dying man in her care has been ordered to pay the nursing board’s legal costs.
The Premier has defended the call to not fine rule-breaking members of a troubling virus cluster in the Casey area, while metropolitan Melbourne’s 14-day coronavirus case average has dipped to 39.3, with 21 new cases and seven deaths recorded overnight.
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