Australian Citizens Start To Reduce The Use Of Masks, What Are The Rules?

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JAKARTA - The leader of the state of Victoria, Australia, Daniel Andrews announced that he would renew the rules to limit the spread of COVID-19. One of them is reducing the rules for wearing masks. How are the complete rules?

Residents of the area no longer need to wear masks from midnight. Originally, physical distance was still maintained.

However, residents of Victoria still need to wear masks if they are indoors. In addition, they are still obliged to bring masks outside the room if they can't avoid the crowd.

"If you go to Bunnings and you are in a shop, you must wear a mask. But if you are in a car park, you don't need to wear a mask," Prime Minister Daniel Andrews was quoted as saying by ABC News.

Apart from being in the middle of the crowd, masks are still required to be worn on public transportation vehicles. "But if you stand in line and you are with other people, you need to wear a mask," Andrews said.

Loosening of rules

The relaxation of masked regulations is one of a series of easing restrictions on COVID-19 prevention in Victoria. The Australian state is currently entering the final steps before returning to normal.

Some other easing of the COVID-19 restriction regime is that Victorians can now accommodate 15 people into their respective homes per day. Meanwhile, the limit for outdoor meetings is increased to 50 people.

Meanwhile, the number of visitors allowed into the rooms in the large halls will increase from 150 to 300. The amount depends on the density in the place.

In addition, contact and non-contact sports for adults are also being permitted. For indoor sports it will be limited to 150 people and group sizes up to 20 people, while outdoor sports can have up to 500 people in a group of up to 50 people.

I'm sure there's no transmission

Victoria has stopped reporting cases of COVID-19 for 23 days in a row. Therefore, the Chief Health Officer of Victoria, Brett Sutton believes that transmission in the community will not happen again.

"We haven't reached the epidemiological threshold in 28 days, but I believe we will," said Sutton. However, he said the public must still pay attention to the importance of maintaining physical distance and hand hygiene.

"We've seen a big outbreak in South Australia," said Sutton. "It can get bigger if you don't take early action."

Prime Minister Daniel Andrews said two weeks from now, on December 6, he would review the regulation to be. "I think it will be the last change this year, and we will 'lock it'," said Andrews.