Ballarat and the rest of regional Victoria will exit the latest COVID lockdown ahead of time.
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Premier Daniel Andrews announced regional Victoria would be released from lockdown measures from 11.59pm on Monday.
It comes as the state recorded 11 new cases overnight, but there have been no cases in the regions as part of the latest outbreak.
There are also minimal exposure sites in regional Victoria.
See the exposure sites here.
Mr Andrews said today was a good day for regional Victoria.
The lockdown was initially expected to last until at least Thursday night.
The restrictions will return to the same as was in place before the snap lockdown.
"This is a good day for regional Victoria," he said.
"That is a very important decision, one that's made on the best of health advice and one that is fundamentally the function of not having cases in regional Victoria. That's very important.
"We do have a conservative approach to these things, we don't want this virus to spread.
"But this is very positive news and speaks to the fact that we do have a degree of containment around these cases. Pleasingly we haven't seen cases in regional Victoria over these last four or five days, so I'm sure that'll be welcome news to to every single regional Victorian."
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Victoria Police will be out in force enforcing the rules.
"I would ask people to use common sense and good judgment, don't travel to regional Victoria unless you need to.
"Retailers and other other businesses who are providing goods and services, we will be relying on them as we have in the past, to be establishing the address of any customers."
People from regional Victoria can travel through Melbourne to get to another part of regional Victoria
The regions will revert back to the rules applied late last week in regional Victoria.
There will no longer be only five reasons to leave home, but visitors are still banned from homes.
ID checks will also be compulsory to ensure people from Melbourne are not being served in the regions.
See the full list of rules, effective as of 11.59pm on Monday, August 9.
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