Outdoor personal training will be permitted,with up to two people plus the trainer,and outdoor communal gym equipment andskate parks will reopen.
For those in thereal estate market,private property inspections of unoccupied premises for a new purchase or end of lease will be allowed. Only one household member may attend at a time,with real estate agents required to remain outdoors during the inspection.
Victoria’s construction workforce will be able to increase to50 per cent of capacity once90 per cent of them have received at least one vaccine dose. Mr Andrews said this measure would be subject to epidemiological advice. Up tofive workers will be able to work onsite atentertainment venues tobroadcast performances.
Mr Andrews said his government would continue to weigh whether additional restrictions could be eased when the 70 per cent threshold is met.
“We will look at other outdoor[recreational] activities that can be done safely,” he said.
“[But] I don’t want to go through a list today,I don’t have a list.”
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Mr Andrews said he didn’t expect more rules would ease in the weeks following September 23 and that a significant reduction in restrictions would not occur until 70 per cent and 80 per cent of Victorians had received two vaccine doses.
“These will be the settings that we all have to live with for a period of time,until we reach not just first-dose vaccination thresholds,but second-dose vaccination thresholds,” he said.
“That is the difficult,but the unavoidable position,that we find ourselves in.”
Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said 70 per cent of the state’s population should have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by October and 80 per cent by November.