A further increase in positive COVID-19 cases has been recorded this morning, totally 363 new cases and three more deaths.
Prompting Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to to now make facial masks compulsory in Melbourne and Mitchell Shire from midnight on Wednesday 22nd July.
This is what the The Victorian Premier said in a press conference this morning:
“This is on the advice of the chief health officer that it’s a relatively simple thing but it’s also about embedding behaviour which I think is just as important on the other side of this second wave as it is in bringing these case numbers down.“We’re going to be wearing masks in Victoria and potentially in other parts of the country for a very long time.“There’s no vaccine to this wildly infectious virus and it’s a simple thing, but it’s about changing habits, it’s about becoming a simple part of your routine.“Most of us wouldn’t leave home without our keys, we wouldn’t leave our home without our mobile phone.”
