Victoria locks down 36 Melbourne suburbs to try to control COVID-19 spike
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
James Ross/AAPVictoria will lock down for a month 36 suburbs in ten Melbourne postcode areas, and Premier Daniel Andrews has asked Prime Minister Scott Morrison to stop for a fortnight flights bringing quarantine passengers into the city.
The drastic re-imposition of restrictions in identified hot spots comes as the state recorded 64 new cases, and...
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