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MITCHELL Shire will will be entering into another lockdown from 11.59pm Sunday night.
The area will join the City of Ballarat and metropolitan Melbourne in its extended lockdown, meaning there will once again only five reasons to leave your home.
Caseloads in Greater Geelong and Mitchell Shire have increased in recent days, with 17 and 15 active cases in these local government areas respectively as of September 18.
A further two new cases in Geelong, two on the Surf Coast and seven new cases in Mitchell Shire were confirmed in Sunday's numbers.
"If you're in Geelong, Surf Coast or Mitchell Shire, follow the restrictions, get tested if you have symptoms, and get vaccinated if you haven't already. Regional communities have overcome outbreaks before - and this will be no different," Premier Daniel Andrews said at a press conference on Sunday.
Under lockdown restrictions, residents won't be able to leave home other than for necessary goods and services, caregiving or compassionate reasons (including medical care and getting a COVID-19 test), authorised work or permitted education, exercise and outdoor social interaction in limited groups, and getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
People can also leave home to visit your intimate partner or single social bubble buddy.
Shopping, exercise and outdoor social interaction will be limited to 10km from your home. Masks will be mandatory indoors and outdoors - and there will still be no visitors allowed to the home.
They will have four hours a day for exercise and outdoor social interaction.
Residents can meet with one other person, or up to four others from two households if all present have received two vaccine doses.
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has also declared that 66 Local Government Areas in NSW, plus Jervis Bay, will move from an Extreme Risk Zone to a Red Zone under Victoria's travel permit system.
This will help Victorians who have only been in these areas to come home, where they need to isolate for 14 days and get tested regularly.
All LGAs on the NSW-Victorian border are becoming red zones - except for Albury, which is in lockdown.
If you live in the cross-border community - and you haven't left the cross-border area or you haven't been in an Extreme Risk Zone any time in the previous 14 days - you can cross the border and enter Victoria without a permit for any reason.
People who have been in an Extreme Risk Zone - such as Albury - in the previous 14 days are still required to obtain a Cross-Border Community - Extreme Risk Zone permit and travel only for permitted reasons should they wish to enter or re-enter Victoria.
For more info on restrictions, visit www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/coronavirus-covidsafe-settings
For more info on Victoria's travel permit system, visit www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/victorian-travel-permit-system
These pages will be updated at 11:59pm to include the new areas in lockdown and the new travel zone designations.
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Victoria has recorded 507 new coronavirus cases since Saturday.
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Saturday also bought 58,619 test results to Victorians as well as 43,441 vaccinations being administered.
Victoria's active coronavirus case tally now sits at 5,262.
These numbers come as two new cases of COVID-19 were added in the Macedon Ranges area since Friday.
Victorian Health Department deputy secretary Kate Matson announced at a press conference on Saturday that of the 535 cases recorded in the state, 15 were in regional Victoria.
She said of the Macedon Ranges cases, one case had been confirmed to be in Gisborne and both were connected to Melbourne workplaces.
"One of the cases dropped late on Friday night and we don't have many details as yet," Ms Matson said.
There has also been five new cases linked to the Mitchell Shire, with one in Kilmore.
"All of these cases are linked to Melbourne and we are seeing that cross movement between the peri-urban areas of Melbourne or the open construction industry," Ms Matson said.
There were also one case linked to a construction site near Swan Hill, with three cases linked in total to that area.
A number of exposure sites were also added in Woodend on Saturday.
According to the state government's coronavirus website, Coles, a children's park and a fish and chip shop were listed as tier two sites.
A COVID-19 positive person visited the Top Shop Fish and Chips shop on September 10 between 10.45am and 11.30am, the Woodend Coles between 10.30am and 11.25am on the same day and the Woodend Childrens Park on September 9 between 2.00pm and 4.30pm.
Anyone who has visited a tier two exposure site during times listed should urgently get a COVID-19 test and isolate until they receive a negative result.
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