NSW health minister Brad Hazzard announces that there are 16 reasons to leave home in NSW. To access medical care or provide caregiving.Victorian premier Dan Andrews announces that only two people may gather outside unless they are members of a household, as well as the only four reasons people are permitted to leave home: We hit the streets of Sydney and find the normally bustling metropolis completely empty. The streets of Melbourne are eerily quiet as people stay at home. Melbourne distiller Gypsy Hub is the first (that we know of) to pivot to making hand sanitiser. Restaurants and cafés except for takeaway and/or home delivery.Cinemas, entertainment venues, casinos, and nightclubs.National Cabinet agrees that the states will close: The ship is later linked to up to 900 infections of Covid-19. There are confirmed positive cases on board at the time, and 130 people test positive within a week. Panic buying leaves supermarket shelves bare, leading the prime minister to urge calm and compassion at the shops: “There is no issue with food supply in Australia, but there is an issue with the behaviour of Australians in supermarkets.'Īlmost 2,700 passengers aboard the Ruby Princess cruise ship are permitted to leave the ship in Sydney without being tested for Covid-19. lifting work restrictions on 20,000 student nurses so they can be engaged to help respond to the pandemic.Īustralia closes its borders to everyone who is not a resident or citizen.social distancing measures of 1.5 metres and.

strict visitation rules for aged care facilities including a limit of two visitors a day and preferably no children under 16 years of age.people only consider travel when it is essential.a ban on outdoor gatherings of 500 or more people to continue in place.a ban on non-essential indoor gatherings of 100 or more people (including staff).The federal government announces these measures, to be implemented by state governments: The Victorian government cancels the F1 Grand Prix, hours before the event. The NSW government cancels all major events of more than 500 people. Time Out rebrands as Time In worldwide to bring our readers ways to connect with their cities and support urban culture without leaving home. The World Health Organisation declares the novel coronavirus to be a pandemic. The 78-year-old man had been a passenger aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship and was the first WA resident to test positive for the disease. The first person in Australia to die of Covid-19 dies in a Western Australia hospital. Two had travelled to Wuhan, China, and the third was a close contact of the two travellers. On the same day, three men in NSW also test positive for coronavirus. January 25, 2020Ī man who had flown from Guandong, China, to Melbourne on January 19, 2020, tests positive for Covid-19, becoming Australia’s first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus. ICYMI: Here's everything we've learned from Melbourne's polarising e-scooter trials.

Covid-19 was first detected in Australia on January 25, 2020. More than two years old, we've passed another grim milestone: 10,000 people have now died of Covid-19 in Australia. It's hard to believe that while Australia was so focused on the bushfires that raged in the early part of 2020, another threat was already on our shores – one that would change the way we live and work for years.

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