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
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
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...
‘No choice’ but to shut Vic construction
THERE was "no choice" but to shut down swathes of Victoria's construction industry because of the spread of COVID-19 and low public health compliance,...
Exposure sites update – September 19
NEW public exposure sites to COVID-19 in the Geelong region include the following: The Wharf Shed, Geelong, September 11, between 10.30am and 11.50am is a...
Vic roadmap unveiled, 507 new virus cases
PREMIER Daniel Andrews today unveiled Victoria's "cautious" roadmap out of lockdown, as the state recorded 507 new virus cases and another death, bringing the...
Exposure sites update – September 18
NEW public exposure sites to COVID-19 in the Geelong region include the following: Three Little Figs, Geelong, between 12.30pm and 2pm, September 13, is a...
GLT digital edition, 16 September
Ballarat lockdown, Shepparton released as Victoria’s outbreak ‘not at peak’
BALLARAT will go back into lockdown for a week due to a rise in cases, as health authorities warn the state's latest outbreak is...
Exposure sites update
COLES Torquay has been added to the region’s growing list of COVID exposure sites with anyone who visited the supermarket urged to get tested. The...
V/Line suspended, more pop-up vax hubs
ANOTHER five COVID-19 infections have been detected in regional Victoria, including one in greater Geelong, one in Mildura, two in Gippsland and one linked to...
Exposure sites increase
THE Department of Health has identified more COVID exposure sites across the Geelong region with exposure time frames dating back to August. Tier 1 exposure...