State Premier Daniel Andrews announced a 6 week lockdown would begin Wednesday, warning 'we can't pretend' the coronavirus crisis is over.
A car drives past a sign in the southern New South Wales border city of Albury warning of fines for people entering NSW from COVID-19 coronavirus hotspots in Victoria as the border is soon to be closed, on July 7, 2020.MELBOURNE - Five million Melbourne residents were ordered back into lockdown after coronavirus cases surged in Australia's second-biggest city Tuesday.
Residents will be restricted to their homes except for work, exercise, medical care or to buy essentials. "The situation we are in is more serious than late March, because we have community transmission, which is much harder to track than infection in return travellers," said Raina MacIntyre, a biosecurity expert at the University of New South Wales.- Sealed off -
Police and the military say they will patrol dozens of border crossings and use drones and other aircraft to check the vast frontier with other states, where the coronavirus has been contained.
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