Mornington Peninsula COVID-19 Update – 19 July 2020
Mornington Peninsula Total cases: 72 – Active cases: 8 – New cases today: 0 One new case yesterday, no new cases today on the Mornington Peninsula. A Somers health expert has added her vo...
Category Archives: COVID-19
‘Close peninsula’ call to stop virus spread
A SOMERS health expert has added her voice to calls the Mornington Peninsula should be excluded from the Greater Melbourne lockdown area to help beat COVID-19. “We need a checkpoint as they have at t...
Masks – Part of Victoria’s heritage since 1880
The news of mandatory mask wearing has taken me completely by surprise. Knowing that I’ll be fined $200 for not wearing a mask after Wednesday has made me regret continuing to panic buy toilet ...
No new peninsula cases as state infections soar
The Mornington Peninsula has had no confirmed new cases of Coronavirus in the last 24 hours as the state’s numbers soared by an all-time high number of 428 cases. The peninsula has had a total ...
Covid-19 Cases climb on the peninsula. Has the horse bolted?
After an increase of just three cases in ten weeks, the Mornington Peninsula has now had eight new cases in a week. And as the state’s total climbs dramatically higher, it seems the peninsula m...
Mornington store shuts after COVID-19 case
THE Telstra store at Mornington Central shopping centre was temporarily closed today (Thursday 16 July) after a staff member contracted coronavirus. Spokesperson Matt Smithson told The News: “A staff...
Outsiders stay away – mayor
THE Mornington Peninsula should be excluded from the metropolitan “lockdown” areas to prevent infected outsiders coming in, the mayor Cr Sam Hearn said last week. He fears residents from hard-hit are...
All clear for ‘essential’ ferry
POLICE checked and cleared all passengers for travel on the Sorrento to Queenscliff ferry after stage three coronavirus restrictions came into force on Thursday 9 July. The ferry is classed as an ess...
Business ‘suffers’ from being ‘metro’
THE impact of tougher COVID-19 restrictions is “having a dire impact” on Mornington Peninsula businesses”. The doomsday scenario described by the mayor Cr Sam Hearn followed the state government’s i...
Fines for breaking emergency rules
IN Mid-May Frankston had recorded the third highest number of fines, 297, for breaking COVID-19 restrictions which came into force in mid-March. Only Melbourne, 590, and Greater Dandenong, 333, had a...
