Victoria's death toll now stands at 147 after the state recorded 11 additional deaths and 439 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
The state's cumulative total of cases now stands at 12,335 as residents bunker down for the second day of stage four restrictions.
In aged care, there remains 1186 active cases, which Premier Daniel Andrews describes as "a challenging setting".
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"We're working incredibly closely with the Commonwealth Government, with the private sector, public hospitals, private hospitals, literally hundreds and-ups of shifts that have been picked up by nurses out of our hospital system, a large team of people working together to provide the best care to those residents and get them what they need when they need it," Mr Andrews said.
"It is a confronting and challenging set of issues and I am deeply grateful to those staff who are stepping up and doing that important work."
New exercise rules for COVID-19 Victorians
Victorians who test positive to COVID-19 will no longer be able to leave their home for exercise, Premier Daniel Andrews has declared.
It comes as out of the 3000 doorknocks in the state - in more than 800 cases - the infected person was not at home.
"That is completely unacceptable," Mr Andrews said.
"So from now, there will be no exercise, if you supposed to be isolating at home. You will need to stay in your home or on your property. Fresh air at the front door. Fresh air in your front yard or backyard or opening a window. That's what you're going to have to do.
"It's difficult to enforce this if people have a lawful excuse and if some people are going to use that to try and justify other decisions - they were at no point getting exercise. They were doing something else."
Chief Health Officer professor Brett Sutton previously said people were allowed to leave their home for exercise due to human rights principles.
Huge new on-the-spot fines in Victoria
Victorians who breach quarantine will now face fines of up to $5000, Premier Daniel Andrews has revealed.
The Premier said it was the "largest on the-spot fine on the statute books in Victoria".
"If there were repeat breaches, if there were particularly selfish behaviour like, for instance, going to work when you had the virus, then there is the alternative pathway and that is, of course, taking you to the Magistrates' Court, where the maximum penalty that can be applied to you is $20,000," he said.
"We don't want it to come to that."
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Permits for essential workers
Essential workers who are permitted to be in the community after Melbourne's curfew hours will be provided with a signed formed by their employer.
Victorians who get stopped by police will then show the form to officers as proof of being an essential worker.
"If you're pulled up by police, you can simply provide that piece of paper and then you would be waved on to go about your business," Mr Andrews said.
"I don't think it's too onerous. It's a pretty simple process."
The form will be on the Department of Health and Human Services website later today.
Dozens of Victorians breach curfews
Dozens of Victorians have breached Melbourne's curfew since it came into effect over the past 48 hours, Police Minister Lisa Neville said.
"We've had dozens of people who have decided they don't need to abide by the curfew … even though Victoria Police have given a bit of a grace period, there are a number of people who have knowingly breached the curfew," she said.
"So somebody who decided they were bored and they were going to go out for a drive, somebody who decided that they needed to buy a car after 8pm last night, drive across the city of Melbourne and we've also seen people who have picked up people from other households, again breaching the direction and then also briefing the curfew. All of those people were infringed last night."
Another 161 fines were issued in the past 24 hours.
Policewoman attacked after approaching women without mask
A young policewoman was brutally attacked by a woman who refused to wear a mask in Melbourne's south-east last night.
The 26-year-old police officer was on patrol with another officer in the Frankston area near the Bayside Shopping Centre.
The policewoman was assaulted by a 38-year-old woman after confronting her for failing to wear a mask.
"Those police officers went to ground and there was a scuffle. This 38-year-old woman smashed the head of the policewoman several times into a concrete area on the ground," Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said.
"That behaviour is just totally unacceptable. That's someone who thinks they're above the law. They're not wearing a mask. They're approached and asked the reason why not and then to react like that is just completely over the top. It's this type of irresponsible behaviour that we're going to address."
The woman was charged with significant offences before being bailed due to no prior criminal history.
"We will issue infringements. We will arrest you. We will detain you where we have to."
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