Hubby is now on 7 days stay at home order simply because he works on Canberra (capital of Australia). There have been a handful (unconfirmed 7 as of this afternoon) of cases since Thursday. So anyone in ACT (Australian capital territory) and anyone who has been in Canberra from 5th August onwards must now stay home and only leave for the standard 5 reasons. Ironically both of us can still enter ACT legally to go grocery shopping or for medical reasons though or essential work but he can't go to the tip with me 6km away which is outdoors, no buildings etc, Canberra is +60km away. Go figure. nor in theory can he leave the house (ok, I'll be honest, on a 2,500 acres sheep farm, we ignore that directive. Our first problem would be finding someone to actually need to distance from.)
This is the equivalent of a handful of cases in Washington DC or London and them closing Washington DC and surrounding states down... or a handful of cases and all of London, Essex, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire and so on being closed down.
But I'm not affected by it despite sleeping in the same bed as him because I've not been into Canberra since the 3rd. This is the bit I really don't get.