{"id":141996,"date":"2021-10-17T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=141996"},"modified":"2021-10-17T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T08:48:08","slug":"melbourne-to-ease-worlds-longest-covid-19-lockdowns-as-vaccinations-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/melbourne-to-ease-worlds-longest-covid-19-lockdowns-as-vaccinations-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne to ease world&#x27;s longest Covid-19 lockdowns as vaccinations rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>When hospitality venues and some businesses reopen, their capacity will remain heavily restricted. <\/li>\n<li>More easing, including the reopening of many retailers, will come once 80% of eligible Victorians are fully vaccinated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Melbourne, which has spent more time under Covid-19 lockdowns than any other city in the world, is set to lift its stay-at-home orders this week, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>By Friday, when some curbs will be lifted, the Australian city of 5 million people will have been under six lockdowns totaling 262 days, or nearly nine months, since March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Australian and other media say this is the longest in the world, exceeding a 234-day lockdown in\u00a0Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p>While coronavirus cases keep rising in Victoria state, of which Melbourne is the capital, the state&#x27;s double-vaccination rate is set to reach 70% this week, allowing for the ease in restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Today is a great day,&quot; said Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews in announcing the lockdown. &quot;Today is a day when Victorians can be proud of what they have achieved.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>When hospitality venues and some businesses reopen, their capacity will remain heavily restricted. More easing, including the reopening of many retailers, will come once 80% of eligible Victorians are fully vaccinated &#8211; estimated by Nov. 5 at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Victoria recorded 1,838 new coronavirus cases and seven deaths. Neighboring New South Wales, which emerged last week from a 100-day lockdown, reported 301 cases and 10 deaths. Eighty percent of the state&#x27;s people have been fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, once a champion of a Covid-zero strategy of managing the pandemic, has been moving towards living with the virus through extensive vaccinations, as the Delta variant has proven too transmissible to suppress.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0new strategy\u00a0makes lockdowns highly unlikely once 80% of the population is fully vaccinated. As of the weekend, around 68% of eligible Australians have been fully inoculated.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#x27;s health officials said on Sunday that quarantine-free travel from New Zealand&#x27;s South Island, where there is no outbreak, will resume on Wednesday. The government is also in discussions with Singapore about reopening travel between the two countries for the fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rise in cases in recent months, Australia&#x27;s coronavirus numbers are low compared to many other developed countries, with just over 143,000 cases and 1,530 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Neighboring New Zealand, which is also learning to live with Covid-19 by accelerating inoculations, reported 51 new cases on Sunday, 47 of them in the largest city Auckland, which has been in a lockdown since mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday,\u00a0New Zealand vaccinated\u00a0more than 2.5% of its people as part of a government-led mass vaccination drive.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/17\/melbourne-to-ease-worlds-longest-covid-19-lockdowns-as-vaccinations-rise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When hospitality venues and some businesses reopen,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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