Since my last post Melbourne, Australia (where we live) has been relatively free from COVID cases and we had experienced freedom like it was pre-COVID, sort of becoming a bit complacent as vaccinations started rolling out too. Until, as of yesterday, Greater Melbourne announced a restriction until early June (masks indoors, limit 5 per household indoors, 30 outdoors) due to an outbreak travelling from Adelaide and their close contacts. It appears to be the contagious variant from overseas that’s raging in India.
As for our family we were already in isolation when the news came, as we had visited an exposure site that was categorised as Tier 1 and needed to self isolate for 14 days and get a negative result. The ironic thing was that we only visited the gp and my son had recovered from his cold ready to go back to childcare, then told we have to get the covid testing done and self isolate. We’ve been keeping up with the news as it keeps evolving, the Tier 1 site we visited has been downgraded to a Tier 2 site which means as long as we get a negative result, we don’t need to self isolate anymore. It’ll be interesting to see what’s next as there’s been 15 active cased so far, and it seems like another lockdown is looming ahead.
UPDATE following day: there’s 25 active cases and we’re under lockdown again for 7 days until 3rd of June at least. The 5km radius travel limit is back on, remote learning for schools and work from home, only essential services open. Ironic thing is that it will end if we actually had to self isolate for 14 days, and luckily all our COVID tests including the kids returned negative
Surviving Corona Virus 2020 