Restrictions & Guidelines

Venues you can attend if you are fully vaccinated include:

• food and drink venues (e.g. restaurants and pubs)
• nightlife venues (e.g. bars and nightclubs)
• entertainment venues (e.g. cinemas, zoos)
• events (e.g. festivals, fun runs and conferences)
• tourism venues (e.g. walking tours, buses)
• casinos/gaming venues and adult entertainment venues

If you don’t meet the vaccination requirements, you can’t enter these venues.  Vaccination requirements don’t apply to food and drink venues operating for takeaway only.

Sport

If you are fully vaccinated, you can attend sporting and recreation facilities (e.g. sports grounds, gyms and swimming pools) and sporting events.

If you don’t meet the vaccination requirements, you can’t enter.  Vaccination requirements don’t apply to people involved in community sport (e.g. a local footy match) or people using swimming pools for essential medical care like hydrotherapy.

Getting goods and services

Venues you can attend if you are fully vaccinated include:

• non-essential retail stores (e.g. books and jewellery shops)
• personal services (e.g. a hairdresser and beauty parlour)
• community premises (e.g. a library) and creative arts premises
• real estate services (inspection and auction)

If you don’t meet the vaccination requirements, you can’t enter.

If vaccination status isn’t being checked:

• real estate inspections can go ahead by private appointment for a single household, and the estate agent does not enter the premises during the inspection.
• community facilities can host essential public support groups, support services and health services in limited numbers.

Vaccination requirements don’t apply to essential retail stores (e.g. supermarkets, post office).

From 11:59pm, Thursday 18 November 2021:

• The vaccinated economy will remain, as will face masks in some settings.
• There will be no caps or density limits for cafés and restaurants.
• Indoor dance floors will reopen.
• Non-essential retail settings across Victoria will join the vaccinated economy. It will only be open to people who are fully vaccinated or have a valid medical exemption, and children aged under 12 years and two months.
• Vaccine requirements for general retail apply from 11:59pm 18 November 2021 as Victoria has reached 90 per cent double dose.
• All indoor and outdoor events with less than 30,000 fully vaccinated attendees will be able to proceed with no special approval. A COVIDSafe Plan is required.
• Major events like the Boxing Day Test and the Australian Open will be able to proceed at full capacity, subject to the approval of the MCG and Melbourne Park’s COVIDSafe Plan.

See Statewide settings at phase D table.

For updated posters visit Signs, posters and templates for your workplace

Information and advice for businesses who have a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the workplace : here

Reopening Resources: VTIC has recorded Webinars and information for businesses: here