Victorian-based Supercars personnel would have to self-quarantine for a fortnight upon their return from the NTI Townsville 500, reliable tomorrow.
Townsville, in addition to South East Queensland, will certainly come to be identified as ‘red areas’ under Victoria’s traffic signal system from Wednesday at 01:00 AEST.
To be clear, there is no constraint on taking a trip from the southern state to North Queensland, presuming the Supercars occasion does go on July 9-11.
Nevertheless, if the red area category remains in place past July 11, returning Victorian homeowners will certainly have to self-quarantine in their normal home or various other ideal premises for 14 days.
That would certainly affect employees from Melbourne-based teams Walkinshaw Andretti United, the Blanchard Racing Team, Tickford Competing, Kelly Grove Racing, Erebus Motorsport, and Team 18, as well as Victorian-based drivers from other groups.
They would certainly have to be evaluated for COVID-19 within 72 hrs of arrival in Victoria as well as once again on around Day 13.
Essentially, they would certainly remain in a stringent lockdown for 14 days, with the only reasons to leave their residence/accommodation being for treatment or clinical materials, COVID-19 testing, in an emergency situation, if called for by law, or to leave Victoria.
Should they see a ‘extremely high-risk exposure site’ in a red zone, they would not be allowed to re-enter Victoria at all, for 14 days considering that going to the website( s) in question.
Non-Victorian locals can not go into Victoria from a red area.
As it stands, Queensland has actually declared only the locked down areas of New South Wales as energetic hotspots, particularly Greater Sydney and also the local government areas of Central Coast, Wollongong, Shellharbour, as well as heaven Mountains.
The Townsville 500 is however in a ragged edge due to the charge of a three-day lockdown in the North Queensland city and likewise South East Queensland, beginning tonight at 18:00 (local time/AEST).
It is for that reason presently slated to finish this Friday evening, while the very first scheduled day of track task at the Reid Park Road Circuit is Friday week.