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REGIONAL Victoria has largely escaped the forced closures and restrictions for metropolitan Melbourne revealed earlier this week, but will benefit from some more state and federal government support.
\nThe Geelong region, along with the rest of regional Victoria, will return to Stage 3 restrictions<\/a> as of today (Thursday, August 6), with several categories of business to close or operate only on a take-away basis.
\nSpeaking at a press conference on Monday, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said businesses in regional Victoria forced to close as part of the Stage 3 restrictions would be eligible for a $5,000 grant from the state government, as they were during the first lockdown, \u201cand we will do our best, our very best to get those paid as quickly as we can\u201d.
\nThe Coalition Government has been under pressure for weeks to introduce some sort of paid pandemic leave for workers without sick leave, and announced such a scheme on Monday this week.
\nThe $1,500 “disaster payment”, as described by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, is for Victorians with no sick leave who are forced to self-isolate for 14 days so they do not feel obliged to go to work.
\nVictorian Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson welcomed the announcement.
\n“There simply can be no excuse for not doing the right thing,” she said.
\n“This adds to the massive economic support we are providing Victorians including $14 billion in JobKeeper and cashflow boost payments.”
\nThe only Stage 4 restriction announced on Monday to apply outside of Melbourne will be for abattoirs, which will be forced to scale back production by one third and put employees through extra testing.
\nSenator Henderson said the new restrictions in Melbourne were “extremely severe”.
\n“I trust that regional Victorians will redouble their efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 so that we can avoid the pain and hardship to which Melburnians are now subjected.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

REGIONAL Victoria has largely escaped the forced closures and restrictions for metropolitan Melbourne revealed earlier this week, but will benefit from some more state and federal government support. The Geelong region, along with the rest of regional Victoria, will return to Stage 3 restrictions as of today (Thursday, August 6), with several categories of business […]<\/p>\n

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