A raft of coronavirus restrictions have been eased across Melbourne, bringing the city in line with regional Victoria.
Masks are now no longer required in offices, factories and schools.
Up to 50 people are allowed at outdoor gatherings and AFL stadium crowds can now be at 40,000 capacity.
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Masks will still be required to be worn in indoor, public-facing settings, with the current rules being reassessed in 14 days.
A range of venues have now moved to a one-person per two square metre capacity limit with no overarching caps including: hospitality, gyms, physical recreations venues, community facilities, creative studios and places of worship - providing a COVID check-in marshal is on-site.
Dance floors can return with a 50-person limit, providing a COVID check-in marshal is present.
Private household gatherings will be kept at 15 visitors per day, Health Minister Martin Foley said yesterday.
Mr Foley praised Victorians for running its Delta and Kappa outbreaks to the ground.
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"The efforts of the Victorian people have been outstanding as we have run to ground simultaneously both the Kappa variants imported from South Australian hotel quarantine and a Delta variant that leaked out of, we suspect, hotel quarantine but still unaccounted for," he said.
"The good news is that the position here in Victoria is stable. That means that we can ease our restrictions further."
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