We’ve compiled the key COVID-19 restrictions in place across the states and territories.
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The traffic light alert system, first proposed in response to the 2003 Beijing SARS outbreak, is already being used around the world to classify travel and inform restrictions in classrooms.
Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown forbids residents travelling more than 5km from home during their daily hour of exercise. Fine for those in leafy suburbs, but not for those with less greenery nearby.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has declared a state of disaster and an 8pm-5am curfew for Melbourne for the next six weeks. Meanwhile, the rest of the state moves to stage 3 restrictions.
Eating at a restaurant and want to stay COVID safe? Check to see if staff are sanitising surfaces, wearing masks, using contactless payment, and spacing out customers.
Victoria recorded 484 new cases on a day when COVID-19 should have been firmly on the decline if the latest lockdown was working. It’s time to contemplate even stricter measures for longer-term gain.
Melbourne isn’t the only place suffering under a second lockdown. It’s happening across the world as the virus surges in countries that were initially successful in flattening the curve.
A survey conducted in April revealed more than half the participants flouted social distancing rules to go shopping for non-essential items, and visit friends or family.
Temporary and tactical urbanism offers simple, low-cost solutions to make streets and other public spaces both safe and sociable during this time of physical distancing.
COVID-19 has upturned uses of public spaces that we took for granted. Will shifts in the regulation of these spaces lead to a change in thinking about who “owns” the city?
A report by Australia’s leading universities envisages the next stage of Australia’s coronavirus response: either eliminate COVID-19 and then reopen for business relatively quickly, or proceed more gradually.
Top contributors
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Professional Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW
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Distinguished Professor, Professor of Immunology, RMIT University
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Research Fellow in Health and Education at the Mitchell Institute for Education and Health Policy, Victoria University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Monash University
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PhD Candidate in Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Adelaide University
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Professor in Urban Horticulture, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer In Urban Horticulture, The University of Melbourne
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PhD candidate, Griffith University
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Professor of Social Work, Dean (Sustainable Development Goals Performance), Griffith University
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Professor, Director, Griffith Inclusive Futures, Griffith University, Griffith University