Coronavirus Australia live updates: Babysitters allowed in Victorian homes
Victoria has updated its stay at home rules to allow parents to have their children babysat if they need to leave home for an essential reason.
Changes to Victoria's stay at home directions mean parents can have family or friends babysit their children.
The updated rules now allow parents to take children “to another person’s premises for the purpose of … providing child-minding assistance".
But the babysitting must be because the child's parent needs to leave home for an essential reason such as work.
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There are now just over 6000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Australia with 2734 in New South Wales, 1212 in Victoria, 943 in Queensland, 420 in South Australia, 481 in Western Australia, 107 in Tasmania, 99 in the Australian Capital Territory and 28 in the Northern Territory .
The death toll has now reached 50 after a flurry of fatalities in recent days.
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