—-MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia’s hard-hit Victoria state has banned people who should be self-isolating from exercising outside their homes and introduced tougher fines for people with COVID-19 who continue to go to work. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says military and health teams would repeatedly and randomly door-knock homes to ensure people who should be self-isolating were at home. Andrews said the government was removing the lawful excuse that someone who should be self-isolating had gone out to exercise. “It’s difficult to enforce this if people have a lawful excuse and if some people are going to use that to try and justify other decisions — they were at no point getting exercise,” Andrews said. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

Source: Daily Sun August 04, 2020 14:37 UTC