Melbourne enters five-day lockdown amid rising Covid-19 clusters

Australia’s second-largest metropolis is underneath lockdown for 5 days from Thursday night time attributable to rising COVID-19 clusters.
Melbourne’s fifth lockdown of the pandemic will apply throughout Victoria state, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews stated on Thursday.
The information got here after officers introduced on Wednesday that Australia’s largest metropolis, Sydney, will stay in lockdown for 5 weeks.
A 3-week lockdown of Sydney and surrounding communities in New South Wales state had been attributable to finish on Friday. But it can now final till July 30 on the earliest.
Health authorities are involved by how shortly the delta variant is spreading in a susceptible Australian inhabitants through which fewer than 13% of adults are absolutely vaccinated.