Thousands of Melbourne services are reeling after being bought to shut their doors from Thursday, as the Victorian Government prepares to unveil harder policing steps to enforce the city’s stage four lockdown.
Bottom line:
- Some services are fretted they will not survive the six-week shutdown
- There are likewise worries a single-site constraint for construction workers could hit tradespeople hard
- The Premier is anticipated to information greater fines and harder constraint enforcement steps later on today
Premier Daniel Andrews stated on Monday the shutdown of companies covering retail, production, child care and hairdressing would see 250,000 less Victorians out and about, assisting to drive down levels of coronavirus transmission which were otherwise forecast to plateau until the end of the year.
Fitzroy hair stylist Sofia Basile stated the six-week closure would be “devastating” and disagreed with the Victorian Government’s ruling that her organisation was not “essential”.
” I think it’s a vital service, it is the feel-good aspect, it becomes part of grooming, it becomes part of daily life, so to take that away as an essential service, I believe that it’s an incorrect relocation,” she said.
” A great deal of my clients have actually been available in and it’s been a real relief for them to really have their hair done.
” It assists with your mental health, so I think eliminating this totally is rather devastating and I do think that it will be crippling for a great deal of organisations and they will not recuperate.”
