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Home visits added as state hits 70 per cent double dose mark

Home visits are back for Victorians from Friday with an updated roadmap allowing 10 people to visit per day.

Outdoor gatherings for 20 people, all school students returning onsite and more people allowed at gym classes, restaurants and weddings are also featured for regional residents.

The lockdown is over for our Bunyip and Garfield residents in metropolitan Melbourne.  The reasons to leave home and curfew are no longer in place.

However, movement between regional and metropolitan regions is still restricted for essential purposes.

These changes will come into force on Friday ahead of a further easing expected in early November.

The updated roadmap, released over the weekend, focuses on more social and recreation activities for fully vaccinated Victorians to mark the state reaching 70 per cent double dose vaccination.

Across Victoria, 10 people can visit homes, including dependents, per day. 

Outdoor gatherings can have 20 people in regional and 15 in metropolitan.

All onsite schooling returns on Friday in regional and at least part-time for metropolitan.

In regional regions, hospitality, gyms, community facilities and creative studios can now have 30 people indoors and 100 outdoors.  The cap for hairdressing and beauty services increases to 30.

Funerals, weddings and religious ceremonies are also capped at 30 indoors and 100 outdoors.

Swimming pools can also have 30 indoors and 150 outdoors.  Changerooms remain closed.

These expanded numbers are subject to density limits and only if attendees are fully vaccinated.

Indoor training for community sport was added but competition will have to wait, with many local leagues hoping to get play underway in the second week of November.

Mask rules remain unchanged.

For more information, call the coronavirus hotline on 1800 675 398 or visit coronavirus.vic.gov.au.

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