David Braithwaite
COVID restrictions are set to be eased across regional Victoria on Friday.
With no community transmission of the virus in regional Victoria this week, the news was announced on Wednesday morning by Acting Premier James Merlino, who said the government will use the following 24 hours to continue tracing and testing and confirm if the changes in restrictions can go ahead at midnight Thursday.
Meanwhile, the current restrictions will remain in place across Melbourne a further seven days.
“We need to be clear though, this strain of the virus means we can’t just snap back to where we were a week ago,” Mr Merlino said.
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HEATS of the inaugural Horizon were the highlight of Sunday’s Sale greyhound racing meet.
The first two dogs in each 440 metre heat progressed to this Sunday night’s final, where the winner will receive $25,000.
Omega Dodge, trained by Barry Harper at Seaspray, claimed a hat-trick of wins by taking out the opening heat. Omega Dodge caught Dream Wizard, trained by Sean Lithgow at Devon Meadows, at the post to win in 24.75 seconds.
A last start winner at Ballarat, Papi Go Fast, trained by Robert Camilleri at Lara, led the second heat all the way to win in 24.83s, three lengths ahead of Dr Madison, trained by Bill McMahon at Darriman.
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