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Should regional Victorian towns with no coronavirus cases be exempt from stage 3 restrictions? – ABC News
The town of Rainbow has no cases of COVID-19 but like the rest of regional Victoria, it is subject to stage 3 restrictions including staying at home, wearing a face mask in public and takeaway only from cafes and restaurants.
More than 400 kilometres north-west of Melbourne is the delightfully named farming town of Rainbow, where most of the 693 residents know each other.
Key points:
- There is debate among Rainbow’s residents about whether they should be exempt from stage 3 restrictions
- The local federal MP said blanket restrictions were “unwarranted”
- The Victorian Government said it could not accept the thought of COVID-19 spreading through regional aged care
Rainbow has no confir…
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