Shops and cafes are packed in my local towns (rural nsw) and no-one is social distancing....in fact it is impossible to distance in the stores, they are so crowded. Business owners told me yesterday that they are more busy than normal. So much for people suffering financially! I did see more people wearing masks though, while out and about on Wed and Thurs. 

Why HUNDREDS of elderly women were allowed to cram into a room with no masks or social distancing a DAY after new rules banning house gatherings of more than ten people

Liberal Party members are outraged their own party allowed more than 200 women to gather in a room - a day after South Australia banned home gatherings of more than ten people.

Looks if people are not taking any notice of the social distancing in Oz.

Pub BANS drinkers from Sydney and Melbourne as the owner vows to 'put the community before our back pockets'

The Bayview Hotel in Woy Woy, on the NSW Central Coast is barring anyone who lives in Sydney or Melbourne from entering the business.

More than 15,000 travellers from coronavirus-riddled Victoria have ALREADY flooded into Sydney over the last two weeks - amid fears it's too late to stop the outbreak spreading

Mandatory hotel quarantine came into effect on Friday for any Victorians looking to cross the border into New South Wales, with the exception of those living in border towns. Those visiting from the locked-down coronavirus-hit state will have to self isolate at their own $3000 expense for a period of 14 days - the same as international arrivals. Travellers have flooded in to NSW in recent weeks (pictured main and inset, arrivals from Melbourne in Sydney this week

Asymptomatic Victorians awaiting the results of their coronavirus tests claim they were told to go to work if they were not identified as a close contact of a positive case.

One Melbourne worker who eventually tested positive received a letter advising that he could continue working if he had no symptoms.

The man went for a precautionary COVID-19 test on July 13 after one of his acquaintances thought they might have contracted the virus.

However the pair were not deemed close contacts and he was told to go back to work, The Australian reported. 

'If you do not have symptoms you can continue normal activities, unless you are a close contact of a known case,' the letter from Monash Health said.   

 Asymptomatic Victorians awaiting the results of their coronavirus tests claim they were told to go to work if they were not identified as a close contact of a positive case. Pictured: A woman walks near the Bourke Street tram stop in Melbourne

'If you have symptoms stay at home and isolate — do not attend school, work, go shopping or engage in any other activities.' 

The acquaintance, a parent, returned a negative coronavirus test and the asymptomatic man continued working or a small Melbourne manufacturing firm after his test. 

He gave his employer the letter from Monash Health on Tuesday July 14 while waiting for his test result. He continued to work as he had no symptoms and was not identified as a close contact. 

The man's boss told The Australian they were surprised by the advice but thought they would be in the clear as the acquainted person tested negative.  

'We thought OK, that sounds reasonable. The person he decided to have a test for is negative and it (the letter) says go back (to work) if you're asymptomatic. And two days later, he was declared positive.' 

The man was at work when he was phoned about his positive test result. The factory was closed for deep cleaning and all his co-workers were sent for a COVID-19 test. 

The claims from the asymptomatic worker are vastly different to advice given out by Premier Daniel Andrews.

 Pictured: Melburnians shop at Queen Victoria Market amid stage 4 lockdown. 

I think perhaps the Melbourne folks have been drinking their hand sanitizers instead of wiping their hands.

Melbourne police officers are forced into self-isolation after arresting a coronavirus-infected teen 'who was on a wild crime spree' 

Victoria Police confirmed the boy had tested positive for coronavirus prompting an undisclosed number of their officers into quarantine.

Alert after Bunnings staff member tests positive for coronavirus after working THREE shifts in busy Sydney hardware store while infected

The employee worked at the store on August 4 from 11am to 9pm, August 5 from 8am to 4pm and August 6 from 1pm to 3pm.

What Sweden did regarding social distancing.....nothing!

IAN BIRRELL: Sweden has one of the highest global death rates from coronavirus. Andrea Tegnell's refusal to impose lockdown on his fellow citizens is held up by critics around the world as a warning against adopting a laissez-faire attitude to this deadly disease. Yet when I asked film production worker Carolinne Liden and her photographer partner Tobias Moe (top right) about the state epidemiologist, their reply was instant. 'He's a hero,' said Carolinne, 35. Certainly every citizen I met on the streets seemed to support the strategy. 'If we look back in a couple of years I think we will be seen to have handled the situation well,' said Hans Isoz (bottom right), an investor in digital companies. Benedikt Furrer (left), an IBM executive, said: 'I work with lots of British colleagues. They said they suffered from being locked down and not being able to roam freely like us.'

Not a single confirmed case of a school pupil passing on coronavirus to their teacher exists anywhere in the world, says a leading expert 

All the available evidence points to children being poor spreaders of the virus, said Professor Mark Woolhouse.

I've been watching a lot of coronavirus news and information items on TV and I haven't seen any which would catch the attention of many young people. 

Why not some dancing/animated sequences with catchy music. The virus could be equated to invisible fleas with a 1.5m jumping distance ? Well done it could have young people wanting to be constantly aware of the risk to themselves and others. After all, who doesn't want to avoid a flea??

Come on, surely someone smarter than me could put something together quickly?

Two teenage girls who snuck into Queensland 'from a NSW coronavirus hotspot' are arrested at a shopping centre after a 24hr manhunt and sent for testing amid fears of another outbreak

The teens aged 15 and 16 (pictured left) were arrested at Noosa Civic (pictured top right)  on the Sunshine Coast on Monday before being whisked away to be tested for coronavirus. Police said they had been looking for the teens for the last 24 hours in relation to alleged COVID-breaches after they crossed the border from NSW last week. Multiple shops at Noosa Civic have been closed for deep cleaning as a precaution, sparking community alarm on local neighbourhood Facebook pages. Police alleged the teens had been in Sydney prior to entering Queensland before the borders closed to all NSW residents last Friday to prevent a second wave of coronavirus.

15 and 16 years old and not one bit of common sense between their ears,should be made to work in corona wards of the hospitals,where the hell are their parents they should be made to pay for all the costs of their juvenile escapade.we need a stupid virus urgently to cull the stupids out of society.

Liquor banand curfews is the only way to put a halt on dickheads not conforming with laws,

Fancy a nurse doing this?

A nurse who brought COVID-19 into one of the biggest residential towers in Australia failed to tell building management she was infected.  And neither did Victoria's health department.  As Victoria records another deadly day, with 19 more deaths and 331 new active cases of COVID-19, Daily Mail Australia can reveal dangerous flaws in the way Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services deals with positive cases within high rise buildings.