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Schools will also be shuttered for the week, while in-person weddings, funerals and religious gatherings are set to be barred entirely. Even then, Victorians were urged to remain within 5km (three miles) of their homes.įurther exemptions are allowed under certain circumstances, such as when one wishes to visit an “intimate partner” or somebody within their “bubble” of immediate contacts. The new round of restrictions will take effect at 11:59pm local time on Thursday night, forcing millions of residents to remain home for seven days with the exception of urgent travel for “necessary goods and services,” “authorised work” or health reasons.

It is Victoria’s fourth lockdown since Covid-19 emerged on the world stage in late 2019. Merlino said that more than 10,000 people had been identified by contract tracers as needing quarantine after potentially encountering one of the new patients, predicting that figure “will continue to grow and change” in the coming days. That brought the state’s active case count to 34. The new restrictions come after 26 cases linked to a viral strain first detected in India cropped up in Victoria over the last week, 12 of them reported overnight between Wednesday and Thursday. “The convenience of using meal delivery service apps, that many have used for the first time over the last two years, and the greater than ever risk of catching COVID-19 now, more than ever before, mean the popularity of meal delivery service apps is set to endure beyond the unique conditions of the pandemic.From 11.59pm CONFIRMED: 5 reasons to leave home in Victoria.-Food and Supplies-Authorised Work-Care and Caregiving-Exercise (for up to 2 hours and with 1 other person)-Getting vaccinated.Exercise and Shopping limited to 5km radius from home, or closet shops. “Although the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic now appears over and lockdowns are (hopefully) a thing of the past, we have had several waves of the Omicron variant this year with the fourth wave peaking only recently in late July. Now nearly a third of Generation X 29.6% (up 15.2% points in two years), almost one-in-six Baby Boomers 15.9% (up 8.5% points) and 12.3% (up 7.3% points) of Pre-Boomers use meal delivery service apps. “Although the growth has been quickest among younger generations people of all ages are increasingly turning to the convenience of using meal delivery service apps. These two generations account for almost 5 million users of meal delivery service apps – just under 70% of the current market. “Unsurprisingly it is the younger generations who are the keenest adopters of the new technology with 45.8% of Millennials and 43% of Generation Z now using meal delivery service apps – up significantly from pre-pandemic. The growth has been across all demographics over the last two years and there are still slightly more women (3.6 million) using meal delivery service apps than men (3.5 million). “Now over 7 million Australians (33.4%) use meal delivery service apps in an average three months – almost double the rate in the first quarter of 2020 (16.9% – 3.6 million).

Over the last two years some of the biggest growth has been for meal delivery service apps as lockdowns enforced to prevent the spread of COVID-19 forced millions of Australians to spend extended periods of time at home. “Roy Morgan has been closely monitoring the usage of apps over the last decade as smartphones became almost ubiquitous across Australia.