Home visits in Melbourne will be restricted to one per day as the city emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.
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Premier Daniel Andrews announced on Tuesday morning tight rules on how Melbourne residents can start visiting each other.
Two adults with dependents can only visit another home once per day.
Anyone who has a visitor also cannot visit another home on that day.
Mr Andrews said there would be "some complexities" around the rules, with visits also restricted to the 25km travel limit.
"I know it's not a nice thing to say or a nice thing for anyone to acknowledge but the place where you feel safest, your home, is actually the most dangerous environment for the spread of this virus," he said.
"That's why there has to be rules and if we all follow those rules then we keep each other safe, we be able to see the people we missed the most and loved the most but do it in a COVID-safe way."
Mr Andrews added the home rules will remain beyond November 8, when the 25km limit and the "ring of steel" separating Melbourne from Ballarat and regional Victoria are set to end.
He said masks would remain compulsory right across the state for "some time", even potentially early next year.
Confirmations of the home rules come as Victoria had its second-straight day of no coronavirus deaths and no new cases.
The last virus death was on October 19 and the state toll remains at 817, with the national figure on 905.
The clean sheet comes the day after Mr Andrews announced a widespread easing of Melbourne's restrictions, effective at midnight on Tuesday, marking the end of its lockdown.
Melbourne's 14-day case average is down to 2.8 and there were six mystery cases from October 11-24.
The corresponding figures for regional Victoria are 0.2 and none.
Home visit rules were the notable absence from Melbourne's long list of eased lockdown rules.
Monday's long-awaited announcement was prompted by Victoria's first clean slate of cases and deaths since June 9 and the results of a testing blitz on an outbreak in the city's north.
The "proud" premier's voice croaked with emotion as he announced the dramatic lockdown changes, headlined by the reopening of Melbourne retail and hospitality venues.
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But Monday marked a significant shift in Victoria's coronavirus campaign.
Melbourne retail and hospitality businesses can begin trading again from midnight on Tuesday, with a "dark" reopening effective immediately so staff can prepare.
There will be a maximum of 20 people seated indoors for hospitality venues - 10 per space - and 50 outdoors.
Beauty, personal services and tattoo parlours will also reopen, and there are widespread changes from outdoor fitness to religious gatherings.
-AAP
