THE State Government has today announced that all venues and businesses required to undertake electronic record keeping for COVID-19 contact tracing purposes must use the State Government’s QR Code system as from 28 May.
There has also been a further easing of restrictions which means that, from 28 May, venues can have up to 200 people per space without any density limits, but larger spaces still need to observe density caps.
Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive, Paul Guerra said, “The increase in density limits for hospitality and events is a step in the right direction but given today’s developments, we should be taking all the restrictions off and opening up COVIDSafe to full capacity, or 100 percent. If we are asking businesses to accept the inconvenience and disruption of swapping their record keeping systems, we need to let them operate at viable levels.
“Business needs certainty and this constant chopping and changing is making it difficult to keep up. Mandated State QR code systems work well in other states and we are confident it will work well here too, as well as making it quicker and easier for customers and clients but this process has been confusing and disorganised.”
