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Victorian colleges, hospitals and public transport will function as regular, however footy followers will want a brand new weekend exercise as the federal government publicizes a ban on gatherings of greater than 500 individuals.
Luna Park will shut as a part of the brand new measures launched to fight the unfold of coronavirus, introduced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday.
However final evening’s AFLW match went forward, with the AFL saying given the late timing followers had been permitted to attend the Geelong vs North Melbourne recreation. All matches from Saturday can be performed with out followers, with solely gamers, officers and media allowed.
Earlier on Friday, Mr Morrison additionally suggested Australians to rethink all non-essential overseas travel.
The recommendation to cancel non-essential mass gatherings is predicted to be reviewed each day, however at this stage an end-date for the extraordinary measure has not been set.
Victoria’s newest coronavirus occasion casualties.
🍀St Patrick’s Day Competition, St Kilda cancelled.
🥩Meatstock Melbourne (BBQ/music) postponed.
🔥 Gippsland Bushfire Live performance (Traralgon) postponed.
Many extra occasions on & off right here:https://t.co/4MqxGgzWMp @theheraldsun— Ian Royall 🏍 (@IanRoyall) March 13, 2020
It is going to be thought-about by the brand new nationwide cupboard, which can maintain its first assembly on Sunday.
The Melbourne Comedy Competition, which was attributable to start on Monday, has been cancelled.
Talks over the occasion’s future had been held this afternoon, with extra particulars anticipated to be launched shortly.
CLASSES FACING CLOSURE
Pupils are being instructed to take dwelling their laptops and textbooks, amid rising considerations that colleges could quickly be closed with out warning.
Mother and father throughout Melbourne obtained recommendation through e-mail on Friday, warning them to be ready.
Schooling Minister James Merlino stated of Friday’s announcement concerning the cancellation of “non-essential mass gatherings of greater than 500 individuals” from Monday: “This doesn’t imply the closure of academic providers together with early childhood centres and colleges, as they’re thought-about important.
“Choices on college or early childhood centre closures can be made on the advice of the Chief Medical Officer.”
Presently, colleges are anticipated to stay open except a toddler or workers member exams constructive. Studying from house is an possibility dad and mom are being ready for.
Based on the newest recommendation, college excursions won’t be affected, however colleges are being suggested to make various plans for worldwide journeys and a few are calling off in a single day camps.
Childcare centres are additionally adopting a conservative strategy, vowing to remain open to assist working dad and mom till authorities advise in any other case.
As a precaution, many are banning anybody that has lately travelled abroad.
Goodstart — which offers childcare for 79,000 households — stated its centres would watch the federal government’s recommendation intently.
In a press release, it stated: “We now have the sources and data in place to reply rapidly, and are prepared to supply help and recommendation to our households and our centre groups ought to the present state of affairs change and the variety of circumstances enhance quickly in Australia.
“We now have excluded workers and youngsters the place they’ve travelled to nations with excessive ranges of an infection.”
The federal authorities has unveiled a $14 million fund to assist childcare centres hit by the virus. Mother and father struggling hardship, comparable to informal staff that suffer a lack of revenue from self-isolation, could also be eligible for the federal further childcare subsidy.
Mother and father Victoria government officer Gail McHardy stated dad and mom would must be “resourceful” and even depend on pals within the coming weeks.
She warned towards utilizing individuals who had been extra susceptible to the virus — comparable to grandparents — for childcare.
DEEP CLEANING AT HOTELS, SHOPS, BUSINESSES
Accommodations, outlets, eating places and different companies are extending cleansing procedures amid rising fears over coronavirus.
A Crown on line casino spokeswoman stated the corporate was giving ongoing recommendation to workers and company.
“Crown has strengthened cleansing regimes, is offering alcohol-based hand sanitisers throughout the complicated and has medically skilled first assist response groups onsite in any respect Crown properties,” she stated.
The Scentre Group, which owns Westfield procuring centres, stated it was intently monitoring the state of affairs.
“We apply the very best requirements of cleanliness and hygiene throughout our Westfield centres and have elevated the frequency of cleansing high-traffic areas in our centres,” a spokeswoman stated.
Village Leisure CEO Kirk Edwards stated measures included “enhanced deep cleansing of areas frequented by company and workers each day, auditoriums, sweet bar and again of home”.
“The place doable company are inspired to buy tickets plus meals and beverage on-line,” he stated.
A spokesman for Neighborhood Centres, which run Chadstone, stated a staff was engaged on preparedness for pandemic conditions and was monitoring authorities recommendation after the brand new advice towards organised non-essential gatherings of 500 individuals or extra.
Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Trade chief government Paul Guerra stated: “The hospitality trade, notably within the CBD, is reeling with uncertainty proper now uncertain of what to do if town goes into lockdown.”
“We now have members in native trades who’re making an attempt their hardest to work by means of and reply to shopper calls for – nonetheless, they’re dealing with inventory shortages and are bracing themselves to close up store as soon as their present provide runs out,” he stated.
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RUN4KIDS CANCELLED
The Herald Solar/ Transurban Run for the Youngsters has been referred to as off amid rising considerations for public well being and security and the unfold of the coronavirus.
The choice was made on Friday to cancel the annual Good Friday Attraction fundraiser, which was scheduled for March 29, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison introduced all “non-essential mass gatherings” of greater than 500 individuals must be stopped.
The Youngsters Day Out occasion, held on Good Friday, will even not go forward.
The Good Friday Attraction will nonetheless proceed within the lead as much as Easter and Channel 7’s Good Friday Telethon will even be broadcast as typical.
In 2019 the Run for the Youngsters raised $1.5 million, whereas Youngsters Day Out noticed 85,000 individuals prove in assist.
IT’S LEGAL BUSINESS AS USUAL
Victorian courts will proceed to function as typical regardless of the coronavirus pandemic.
Whereas the NSW Supreme Court docket this week introduced adjustments to its sitting procedures, Court docket Companies Victoria stated hearings would proceed as regular.
“Victoria’s courts and VCAT are working as typical,” CSV communications supervisor Jenni Coady stated.
“Every jurisdiction has supplied on their web site, contact factors for anybody who has questions on attending or visiting court docket, as requests for adjournments can be thought-about within the typical method.
“The courts and VCAT are intently following state and Commonwealth info and recommendation, and Court docket Companies Victoria’s emergency administration staff has met to debate the difficulty and can co-ordinate any response as required.”
Ms Coady stated further hand sanitisers had been positioned round court docket buildings.
A County Court docket trial was adjourned after a juror sought testing for the coronavirus illness.
The opposite jury members can be knowledgeable of the outcome.
From March 23 the NSW Supreme Court docket will implement new procedures to minimise the necessity for events to attend court docket.
Registrars’ Lists can be performed as a lot as doable both by the web court docket or by phone hyperlink and, in contentious issues, by videolink.
An identical strategy can be taken in Judges’ Lists.
There can be no adjustments to the best way the Felony Lists and present Supreme Court docket jury trials are being heard.
A senior Victorian official stated court docket workers had been planning for all contingencies.
NINE NEW VIC CASES
9 new coronavirus circumstances have been recognized in Victoria, together with the primary confirmed case the place the illness was transmitted throughout the group right here.
Six males and three girls aged between 20 and 70 are actually all recovering at dwelling in isolation.
Seven of them had lately travelled abroad, however the Division of Well being stated one had “no historical past of journey or contact with a confirmed case”.
One of many confirmed circumstances had attended the Golden Plains music pageant however was not unwell on the occasion, and the division stated “no additional motion is required by pageant goers”.
It comes because the Chief Well being Officer has instructed the nation’s leaders mass gatherings attended by greater than 500 individuals – together with soccer video games, concert events and conferences – should be cancelled.
Professor Brendan Murphy urged the extraordinary motion to fight the coronavirus disaster on the Council of Australian Governments assembly in Sydney at present.
It will throw the AFL season into chaos earlier than it is because of kick off subsequent week, and would additionally seemingly power mass shutdowns of universities and colleges.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and state and territory leaders are anticipated to talk within the subsequent hour, as soon as the COAG assembly has wrapped up.
It follows the decision to cancel the Grand Prix in Melbourne after Victoria’s first recorded case of group transmission of the virus.
Victoria’s Chief Well being Officer Brett Sutton stated the primary case of group transmission fed into his up to date recommendation to the federal government that led to the cancellation of the Grand Prix.
“There have been quite a lot of new developments previously 24 hours. This contains the constructive take a look at in a Method One staff member, the quickly altering risk posed by the unfold of the virus in Europe, and the cancellation and suspension of different mass gathering occasions all over the world,” he stated.
“I’m reviewing this quickly evolving state of affairs each day and can be discussing suggestions round future mass gatherings with my Federal and State counterparts at at present’s Australian Well being Safety Principal Committee assembly.”
“My recommendation will proceed to be targeted on doing no matter is critical to minimise the unfold of an infection and preserve Victorians secure.”
New public publicity websites linked to the brand new circumstances embody two Qantas flights – QF430 from Melbourne to Sydney and QF459 from Sydney to Melbourne – on March 9.
One particular person had attended Mary Miller Cafe in Fitzroy North on March 10 and one other visited the No. 19 cafe in Ascot Vale on the identical day.
Travellers may have been uncovered on Emirates flight EK0406 from Dubai to Melbourne, which landed on March 10.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS CANCELS GIG
Robbie Williams’ has cancelled his Melbourne present which was attributable to happen on Saturday evening, subsequent to the Grand Prix website in Albert Park.
“I’ll be turning up. I actually wish to come to Australia after I can and I’ve been trying ahead to this for months,” Williams said yesterday.
“I’m trying ahead to the gig. Love an Aussie viewers, didn’t wish to let individuals down.
Followers will obtain a full refund and can be contacted by Ticketek shortly.
[THREAD] Following on from the choice of Method 1 and the FIA, with the assist of the Australian Grand Prix Company (AGPC) to cancel all Method 1 exercise for the Australian Grand Prix, World Tour’s present on Saturday 14th March with Robbie Williams is cancelled.
— World Tour (@worldtour) March 13, 2020
POLICE ROAD TESTING TO GO AHEAD
Drug and alcohol testing of drivers will proceed as Victoria Police seeks recommendation on whether or not extra security measures are wanted towards coronavirus.
The power stated on Friday it needed steering from Chief Medical Officer Andrew Wilson earlier than it made any adjustments.
Senior police met on Friday to debate potential implications for its operations from the specter of the illness and how you can plan towards it.
There are tens of millions of alcohol breath-tests a yr performed in Victoria and it’s anticipated 150,000 saliva-based roadside drug exams can be carried out this monetary yr.
The Police Affiliation on Friday raised concerns about the safety of members operating testing sites.
“We stay involved concerning the security of our members, who’re persevering with to conduct breath exams with out the non-public protecting gear that recommendation from medical professionals recommend must be worn to manage an infection whereas conducting these actions,” affiliation secretary Wayne Gatt stated. “We’ll take into account issuing our personal security directions to our members if this matter just isn’t rapidly and satisfactorily resolved.”
A Victoria Police assertion stated the power was monitoring the outbreak and any potential affect on its operations from the “ever-evolving state of affairs”.
A kind of was conducting preliminary breath-testing however the assertion stated the preliminary recommendation was present measures had been sufficient and gloves worn by members didn’t must be modified for each pattern.
A supply stated it might be folly to ban people attending major sporting events then anticipate police working breath-testing stations to conduct dozens of examinations an hour on members of the general public the place saliva was current.
The Herald Solar has been instructed quite a lot of police members have self-isolated as a precaution. They’d been due to coming into contact with individuals suspected of being contaminated or after coming back from abroad.
FOURTH MELBOURNE SCHOOL SHUTS DOWN
Westbourne Grammar Faculty has grow to be the fourth Melbourne school to shut down due to COVID-19.
The varsity confirmed a senior pupil was at present being examined for coronavirus.
The varsity can be from on Friday 13 March to Monday 16 March.
Meg Hansen, Westbourne principal confirmed the varsity had commenced the web supply of its academic applications.
“We’re persevering with to supply all our stakeholders with info by e-mail and textual content, as additional information turns into out there,” stated Ms Hansen.
“Westbourne is responding to all and any authorities, well being division and different instructions as required. Lecturers have suggested college students relating to their schoolwork for Friday and Monday to deal with continuity of academic outcomes.”
APS sporting competitions have been referred to as off for remainder of Time period 1, except First Staff sport.
The APS swimming and diving finals, and the APS Regatta (Heads of the River) can be attended by opponents and fogeys solely, whereas workers will attend in restricted numbers to oversee opponents.
MUSIC FESTIVAL JOINS LONG LIST OF CANCELLED EVENTS
Rock pageant Obtain – headlined by US band My Chemical Romance – has been cancelled amid coronavirus fears.
The occasion was attributable to happen at Melbourne Showgrounds on March 20 and Sydney’s The Area on March 21. Punters will obtain refunds.
Followers feared the worst yesterday when My Chemical Romance, who reformed final yr, cancelled their Japanese go to.
Obtain was additionally attributable to characteristic Deftones, Jimmy Eat World, Clutch, Ministry and extra.
FULL LIST: EVENTS CANCELLED, POSTPONED SO FAR
Obtain’s sudden cancellation comes as rumours surrounding different main festivals together with Splendour within the Grass in Byron Bay which is tipped to be shifting to later this yr, just like Coachella. Promoters have been approached for remark.
The worldwide touring market is being hit onerous by coronavirus fears, with artists not desirous to journey and followers hesitant to purchase tickets.
Dwell Efficiency Australia have referred to as on the Federal Authorities to supply assist for Australia’s $2.5 billion stay efficiency trade which is being hit by the coronavirus.
“We’re already seeing cancellation of occasions and touring applications throughout the nation. We anticipate this to worsen with the trade shedding a whole lot of tens of millions of dollars and 1000’s of jobs,” LPA Chief Govt Evelyn Richardson stated.
MELBOURNE GP OFFICIALLY CANCELLED
The Australian Method One Grand Prix has officially been called off due to coronavirus fears.
Australian Grand Prix Company and Method One chiefs this morning took the unprecedented choice to droop the race indefinitely.
Race and F1 chiefs met this morning to debate the fallout and made the decision after session with well being authorities and groups from all over the world.
It comes as spectators had been this morning instructed they’d not be allowed to attend this weekend’s occasion in Melbourne attributable to considerations of the potential unfold of the lethal coronavirus.
Victorian taxpayers could not know for weeks in the event that they need to foot the invoice for the Melbourne Grand Prix.
As greater than 12,000 workers and 600 suppliers packed up the short-term circuit on Thursday, it was unclear if the general public must pay about $60 million to F1 Administration.
Australian Grand Prix chief government Andrew Westacott stated the monetary implications of the cancellation had been nonetheless to be resolved.
“A cancellation of this nature has a variety of penalties and a few of these are contractual and monetary,” he stated.
“We’ll work these by means of with the business rights holder within the days and weeks following this announcement and we can be ensuring that acceptable contractual measures are sorted.”
F1 officers didn’t reply to questions concerning the race charge or which groups had been prepared to race as soon as the McLaren staffer examined constructive to the illness.
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg stated the Morrison Authorities wouldn’t bail out Victoria if F1 administration lumped Melbourne with the charge regardless of the cancellation.
However the Herald Solar believes the Grand Prix Company will even discover claims by means of the state authorities’s insurance coverage company, the Victorian Managed Insurance coverage Authority.
POPULAR EVENTS, AFL UNDER CLOUD
Premier Daniel Andrews has been unable to ensure the opening round of the AFL season will proceed as deliberate subsequent week, after the federal government moved to forestall followers attending the Grand Prix.
Mr Andrews stated this morning it was “deeply irritating” that he couldn’t say “if there can be footy subsequent week”.
“I’m merely not ready to do this,” he stated.
“There are very detailed dialogue occurring with Gill McLachlan and his staff on the AFL. They should confront a few of these points as effectively, whether or not they proceed and in the event that they do proceed, if they’ll with followers.”
“I’ve been clear all week that this is able to be disruptive, that we might be asking of Victorians, and certainly Australians, issues they’ve by no means been requested earlier than.”
“That may be very irritating however you’ve received to be guided by the recommendation. The character of those pandemics is that the recommendation adjustments very, very quickly.”
Mr Andrews stated the AFL and the federal government would decide primarily based on recommendation from medical consultants.
“If we don’t do all the pieces we will to scale back the quantity of people that get the virus then we’ll solely add to the variety of individuals, notably susceptible individuals, who find yourself gravely sick,” he stated.
“If we don’t take all vital steps, extra individuals will die. That’s not one thing any of us ought to accept.”
Organisers of the Melbourne Worldwide Flower and Backyard Present are reviewing the newest public well being recommendation earlier than making any choice about whether or not the occasion would proceed.
Present shows are already being arrange in Carlton Gardens and Royal Exhibition Constructing for the 25th anniversary of the annual pageant which is scheduled to run from March 25 to 29.
At this stage, the occasion remains to be on however that might change in coming days.
No choice has been made but on the Run for the Youngsters occasion, scheduled for March 29.
Race organisers stated in a press release this morning: “At this stage, no choice has been made to cancel the occasion, nonetheless, we’re frequently monitoring the evolving COVID-19 state of affairs & reviewing all facets of the occasion.
One of many Yarra Valley’s hottest flower festivals, which will get greater than 60,000 guests, has been cancelled
Tesselaar Tulip Farm has cancelled its third annual KaBloom pageant, which was attributable to run for 3 weeks from March 28 to April 19.
That is the newest blow to tourism within the Yarra Ranges because the brakes had been placed on in style vacationer points of interest throughout the municipality throughout their peak season due to bushfire smoke and the coronavirus
FLIGHT CENTRE BRANCHES TO CLOSE
Flight Centre will close up to 100 underperforming stores earlier than June 30 because the coronavirus continues to cripple the worldwide journey trade.
The underperforming shops are anticipated to shut inside months and gross sales workers redeployed to fill present vacancies in different outlets.
What shops will shut has not but been revealed by the corporate.
Versatile working preparations can be provided, retailer buying and selling hours decreased and workers urged to take depart as a part of the cost-cutting measures.
AUSSIE DOLLAR HITS 12-YEAR LOW
The Aussie greenback plunged to a near 12-year low of 62.13 US cents amid the coronavirus pandemic that’s shaking international monetary markets.
The greenback had not sunk this low towards the buck because the GFC-lows of November 2008.
The early-morning fall got here because the US greenback spiked in a single day in what IG’s Kyle Rodda described as uneven commerce.
The Dow Jones industrial common fell by nearly 10 per cent, as coronavirus fears escalated — making it Wall St’s greatest decline because the inventory market crash of 1987.
Further reporting by Laura Armitage, James Mottershead, Shannon Deery, Alex White and Ian Royall.
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