All of Victoria will go into another Stage 4 lockdown for 5 days from 11.59 pm tonight, finishing at 11.59 pm Wednesday.
Mandatory masks in all situations, the five-kilometre radius, and the four essential reasons to leave home are all coming back.
Shopping, Care Giving, Essential Work and exercise for 2 hours per day.
The Holiday Inn cluster at Melbourne Airport reached 13 overnight, paving the way for a lockdown.
Daniel Andrews said there was no other option with more cases of the UK strain likely to be in the community.
He went on to confirm that there will be no private gatherings in anyone’s home, no public gatherings, if you can work from home then you must, schools will close but remain available for vulnerable children or children of those who are permitted to work, childcare and early learning will remain open, higher education is closed, places of worship are closed, religious gatherings and ceremonies are not permitted.
Funerals can involve no more than 10 people and weddings are not permitted.
