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GLT digital edition, 28 October

Melbourne to reunite with Vic regions

MELBURNIANS will be able to enter regional Victoria before next weekend as part of further eased COVID-19 restrictions when the state hits its eighty...

Victoria records 1750 cases, nine deaths

VICTORIA has added a further one-thousand-seven-hundred-and-fifty new infections to its COVID-19 caseload, all but two of them locally-acquired. The state has also recorded nine more...

Exposure sites update – October 23

THE Geelong Magistrates’ Court, and an early learning centre are among the latest exposure sites for the region. Goodstart Early Learning Drysdale, at 86-90 Barrands...

GLT digital edition, 21 October

Authorities firm on hospitality vax mandate

VICTORIAN authorities are standing by a mandate for hospitality workers to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before Melbourne's pubs, cafes and restaurants reopen, despite...

‘Typo’ in Vic rules vexes entertainment

MELBOURNE entertainment venues won't be able to open to fully vaccinated patrons indoors when lockdown ends, because a COVID-19 rule change contained a "typo". When...

Victoria ends lockdown five days early

VICTORIA will end its sixth long-running lockdown five days earlier than planned, as the state races to its seventy per cent fully vaccinated target. Premier...

Exposure sites – October 16

THE Department of Health and Human Services has listed The Squires Loft and Yeah Boy in Geelong West as a Tier 1 exposure site. Anyone...

COVID-positive 15yo among seven deaths

A COVID-positive teenage girl with other health conditions has become the youngest Victorian to die during the current outbreak. The state’s COVID-19 commander Jeroen Weimar...

GLT digital edition, 14 October

Victoria’s $2.5m for COVID medico recruits

VICTORIA will spend two-point-five million dollars to recruit up to one-thousand extra healthcare workers who are living overseas, to support the state's struggling health...

Thousands to attend Melb Cup, live music

DOUBLE-vaccinated Victorians will be able to attend the Melbourne Cup and live music within weeks under a large-scale trial of crowd numbers. About 10,000 racing...

Infected Virgin worker flew to NSW, SA

AN airline cabin crew member has tested positive for coronavirus after travelling on flights across three states while potentially infectious, Victorian health authorities say. Meanwhile,...

GLT digital edition, 7 October

Celebrating Seniors – Special Feature

Victoria ICU patients ‘begging’ for vax

INTENSIVE care nurses have made an impassioned plea for Victorians to get vaccinated, with COVID-19 patients in hospital set to soar this month. Victoria reported...

$200m for lockdown-hit Vic construction

VICTORIAN businesses impacted by the construction industry's two-week shutdown will be given almost two-hundred-million dollars in financial support, as the sector prepares to reopen. Victoria...

GLT digital edition, 30 September

Geelong Seniors Festival, 2021 Program

Exposure sites update – September 25

NEW exposure sites across the Greater Geelong region include: Medic Aid Medical Clinic, Geelong, September 22, between 11.45am and 1pm. This is a Tier 1...

Exposure sites update – September 24

THE Department of Health has listed multiple COVID-19 exposure sites across the Geelong region within the past 24 hours. New exposures sites include locations in...

GLT digital edition, 23 September

Vic teachers must get COVID-19 vaccine

VICTORIAN teachers and childcare workers will have to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before they return to work. Education Minister James Merlino announced all staff at...