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Several Covid restrictions, including most vaccine obligations and the requirement for masks in airports, will be withdrawn on Saturday, according to Victoria.
From 11.59 p.m. on June 24, the Andrews government declared that masks will no longer be necessary in airport terminals.
Domestic flights, public transportation, ridesharing vehicles, hospitals, and care facilities will all require masks.
Workers in education, quarantine, food distribution, and meat and seafood processing are no longer required to receive the third vaccine.
Visitor caps at residential aged care and disability facilities will also be scrapped but visitors will still be required to return a negative RAT test.
People who are infected with Covid will still be required to isolate for seven days but can drive other household members to school or work as long as the infected person does not leave the vehicle.
General employees will no longer be required to work from home if they aren’t double vaccinated.
Employees in the health and care industries, on the other hand, will still be required to obtain at least one booster injection – a total of three vaccine doses.
The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) recommended that mask mandates in airport terminals be abolished earlier this week.
‘The AHPPC notes all states and territories have relaxed mask mandates in most settings within the community and considers that it is no longer proportionate to mandate mask use in airport terminals,’ the AHPPC said on Tuesday.
Health Minister Martin Foley said some rules needed to remain so hospitals didn’t become overwhelmed through winter.
‘Modest changes to our public health measures will keep Victorians protected as we continue to safely lift mandates and support businesses and individuals to begin to manage their own Covid risk,’ he said in a statement.
The lifting of more Covid restrictions is significant in Victoria given its capital, Melbourne, became the most locked down c