In an extraordinary move, 3000 people in public housing towers in Melbourne are under complete lockdown and two more postcodes have been hit with stay-home restrictions after Victoria recorded 108 new coronavirus cases. Police have now raised fears about having to guard the towers, fearing the spread of infection.
Businesses in hotspot COVID-19 suburbs have shut up shop while neighbours across the road operate as normal. The rules have divided locals with many left confused. This is what life’s like inside the 10 postcodes under lockdown.
All students and staff at Al-Taqwa College in Truganina, outside Melbourne’s lockdown suburbs, have been placed into quarantine after the school was linked to 23 cases in a week. It comes as Queensland Police warn Victorians against trying to cross the state border.
Students living in Victoria’s virus hotspots could return to remote learning next term after it was revealed there have been student-to-student transmissions. It comes as another 77 coronavirus cases were recorded and lockdown restrictions turn “hot zones” into ghost towns.
The parents of Shari Davison have penned a heartfelt letter, 25 years after the Melbourne mum’s disappearance. A $1 million reward has been posted for information on the dancer, who has links to black widow killer stripper Robyn Jane Lindholm.
The family of a man stabbed to death near a mall in Oakleigh on Monday night have broken down in tears as they laid flowers at the scene, as four people quizzed by police are released.
Victoria has recorded 75 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, with most cases emerging from hotspots where a testing blitz has been underway. It comes as Melburnians are warned the crisis will get worse.
Daniel Andrews has threatened to reinstate a stay at home order for Melbourne’s coronavirus hotspots after the state recorded another surge in new cases overnight. Here’s the latest.
Despite fears Victoria is in the midst of second a wave, the state government says the National Cabinet has endorsed its handling of the coronavirus crisis as a “textbook” response that other states should follow.
Concerns are growing over a public transport coronavirus outbreak after a Flinders Street station cleaner tested positive. It comes amid talks to send police or PSOs into Victoria’s problem-plagued hotel quarantine system.
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