VICTORIA'S SNAP FIVE-DAY LOCKDOWN FROM 11.59PM ON THURSDAY:
RULES
* Five reasons to leave home: to shop for food or essential items, provide or receive care, exercise, work or study if unable to from home, and get vaccinated
* 5km travel limit for exercise and shopping
* No private or public gatherings
* Mandatory masks both indoors, except for homes, and outdoors
* Must work from home if possible
* Non-essential retail closed
* Supermarkets, bottle shops and pharmacies remain open
* Cafes and restaurants take away only
* Schools move to remote learning for all but vulnerable children and kids of essential workers
* Childcare and kinder stay open
* Up to 10 mourners at funerals, weddings banned unless for end of life or deportation reasons
* Hospital visits limited, only for permitted reasons
* Parts of regional Victoria will be released from lockdown early if it's safe to do so
PREVIOUS VICTORIAN LOCKDOWNS
* Lockdown one: statewide, March 30 to June 1, 2020, 63 days
* Lockdown two: Melbourne, July 8 to October 27, 2020, 112 days; regional Victoria, August 6 to September 13, 2020, 38 days
* Lockdown three: statewide, February 12 to February 17, 2021, five days
* Lockdown four: Melbourne, May 27 to June 10, 2021, 14 days; regional Victoria, May 27 to June 3, 2021, seven days
* Lockdown five: statewide, July 15 to at least July 20, 2021, five days
HOW WE GOT HERE
* A crew of three NSW removalists, two of whom have since tested positive, did jobs at a Craigieburn home and the Ariele Apartments in Maribyrnong on July 8
* Four residents on the third floor of the apartments caught the virus including a man in his 60s
* He passed it on to his parents, aged 89 and 90, who live in Craigieburn
* That man also attended an AFL game between Carlton and Geelong at the MCG on Saturday with a friend, a Bacchus Marsh Grammar teacher
* The friend, a Barwon Heads man in his 50s, caught the virus and passed it on to two members of his household, another man in his 60s and a nine-year-old child
* Three other cases sitting in the same MCG section as the two men also tested positive in a case of suspected "stranger-to-stranger transmission"
* Another case is a close contact of a COVID-positive Ariele Apartments resident
* In a separate cluster, a family of four from the Hume local government area returned from NSW. Three by car on July 4 and one by plane on July 8
* All four have progressively tested positive since Sunday
* A man in his 30s contracted the virus after speaking to a member of the family who he knew at Coles Craigieburn
CLOSE CONTACTS AND EXPOSURE SITES
* 1500 primary close contacts, 5000 secondary
* More than 80 exposure sites including multiple supermarkets, a Maribyrnong pharmacy and Point Cook pub
* Full list at https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/exposure-site
