All sport including AFL to resume in Victoria from TOMORROW amid coronavirus lockdown

All sport including AFL to resume in Victoria from TOMORROW as lockdown restrictions are eased in the state

  • Training for all professional sport will resume in Victoria from Tuesday
  • Premier Daniel Andrews on Monday announced a raft of eased restrictions
  • People will also be able to gather in groups of five indoors and 10 outdoors

Training for all professional sport, including AFL and the NRL, will resume in Victoria from Tuesday.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews made the announcement on Monday, telling reporters he had made a ‘safe, cautious and appropriate step’ toward easing coronavirus lockdown conditions.

Premier Andrews said the AFL and the state’s public health team had been working hard to come to an agreement regarding resuming sport.

‘After all, it is a workplace,’ he said. ‘We have agreed to a set of arrangements to allow training for AFL, rugby league, other professional sports, to resume just before midnight tomorrow night.’    

‘Once training is up and running again, that paves the way for the AFL and other codes to make their own announcements.

‘Training resuming paves the way for footy to be back and I think we all want that provided it is safe, appropriate and can be done in a cautious way. 

Premier Andrews said he is ‘confident’ this is the correct decision, and said his primary concern was not allowing the state to imitate other nations which eased restrictions too soon only to be hit with a second wave of COVID-19 cases.

Under the new rules, Premier Andrews also will allow gatherings of five people at homes for intimate dinner parties, and 10 people will be able to gather outdoors. 

Cafes and restaurants will not open yet, but Premier Andrews said he would review the circumstances in June.

If the three weeks with eased gathering restrictions had not led to a mass spike in community transmission cases, he would look to reopening more businesses. 

More to come. 

Training for all professional sport, including AFL and the NRL , will resume in Victoria from Tuesday



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