LATEST NATIONAL CORONAVIRUS ACTION:
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BUSINESS
* From midnight on Wednesday food courts in shopping centres will only be available for takeaway food.
* Auctions and open house inspections are banned.
* Outdoor and indoor markets are banned while rules around major food markets will be addressed by states and territories.
* Personal services such as beauty therapy and tattoo parlours (but not physiotherapy) are banned.
* Hairdressers and barbers can continue but must strictly manage social distancing and restrict the amount of time a patron can be in the premises to no more than 30 minutes.
* Amusement parks and arcades, and indoor and outdoor play centres must close.
* Boot camps and personal training must be limited to 10 peoeple.
* Galleries, museums, libraries and swimming pools must close.
SOCIAL DISTANCING
* Weddings can continue to be conducted where it is just the couple the celebrant and two witnesses, no more than five people.
* Funerals are limited to no more than 10 people.
SCHOOLS
* It is safe to send children to school up to the end of the term.
* But some pupil-free days will be needed to plan distance learning.
* Schools will reopen after the term break with a mix of distance learning and in-school learning for all "essential workers".
* PM to meet with teachers and other sector representatives about keeping schools open and protecting staff.
ESSENTIAL WORKERS
* Everyone who still has a job is an essential worker.
TRAVEL
* The official "do no travel" warning will turn into an outright ban on overseas travel, with some exceptions such as aid workers and compassionate travel.
* New offence of profiteering and seeking to export goods overseas, relating to such things as medical supplies and masks.
Australian Associated Press
