Vic scraps primary school mask mandate

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published April 20, 2022

Close contacts will be exempt from isolation, primary school students can ditch the masks and the unvaccinated allowed to return to venues as part of Victoria's new COVID-19 restrictions.

Victoria will scrap a number of COVID rules including a mask mandate for Grade 3 to 6 children.

A raft of rules will ease from 11.59pm on Friday after the state passed the peak of its second ...

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