Australia is placing around 300,000 people in lockdown after a spike of coronavirus cases broke out in the suburbs of Melbourne.
Victoria has reported 73 new Covid-19 cases overnight, causing 10 hotspot postcodes to be placed in lockdown from midnight. The state’s premier Daniel Andrews said today that public health officials would be going door-to-door in the most affected suburbs and offering free testing to residents.
He continued: ‘I can report to you that as of last night we had knocked on some 54,000 doors in those high-risk suburbs and postcodes offering advice, testing information and in some cases the self-administering test kits where people can take the test and it can be collected at a later point.’
‘There will be further door-knocking, quite intensive door-knocking and there will be an update to this end each and every day.’
Last week a man in his 80s died overnight after testing positive for coronavirus, the country’s first virus-related death in a month.
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