{"id":2532,"date":"2020-10-26T16:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T05:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T05:29:02","slug":"melbourne-businesses-allowed-to-open-from-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/melbourne-businesses-allowed-to-open-from-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne businesses allowed to open from Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SkyNewsAustralia\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sky News Australia<\/a> &#8211; Oct 26, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Melbourne businesses allowed to open from Wednesday\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pl0hk2O2IlI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Premier Daniel Andrews has finally green-lit the opening of retail, restaurants, hotels and cafes from Wednesday after Melburnians spent weeks in lockdown while case numbers were extremely low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mass testing took place in a northern Melbourne cluster overnight returning more than 1500 negative COVID tests, which the premier used as a justification to halt announcing any changes on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cases have been in very low numbers for weeks, prompting calls from the business community for Mr Andrews to open much earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Andrews said retail, restaurants, hotels, caf\u00e9s and bars will reopen, with hospitality venues restricted to a maximum of 20 people indoors seated, with an outdoor capacity of 50 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The premier also announced the four reasons to leave the home will be removed, but the 25 kilometre travel limit remains in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outdoor gatherings remain at a maximum of 10 people with infants under 12 months not being included in that calculation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGatherings will no longer be limited to just two households to can be more than two households but the group cannot exceed 10,\u201d Mr Andrews said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are able to say that now is the time to open up. Now is the time to congratulate every single Victorian for staying the course\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News Australia &#8211; Oct 26, 2020 Premier Daniel Andrews has finally green-lit the opening of retail, restaurants, hotels and cafes from Wednesday after Melburnians spent weeks in lockdown while case numbers were extremely low. Mass testing took place in a northern Melbourne cluster overnight returning more than 1500 negative COVID tests, which the premier&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/melbourne-businesses-allowed-to-open-from-wednesday\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melbourne businesses allowed to open from Wednesday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,151,769],"tags":[556,659,674,1238,167,43,42,660],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dan-andrews-261020jpg.jpg?fit=780%2C434&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}