A general view of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. Image: AAP/PA Images A general view of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. Image: AAP/PA Images AUSTRALIA IMPOSED AN overnight curfew on its second-biggest city and banned people from moving more than 5km from home in a bid to control a growing coronavirus outbreak that is infecting hundreds daily.
Melbourne residents will be limited to an hour of exercise a day, no further than 5km from home starting Sunday night. The sweeping new measures follow a city-wide lockdown that began in early July but has failed to curb the spread of the virus, with Andrews blaming the continuing rise in cases on people flouting stay-at-home orders.“These are the decisions made because anything short of this will not keep us safe,” Andrews said, adding anything less “will see it drag on for months and months and months”.
Health authorities have linked the resurgence to security bungles at hotels used to quarantine international travellers that allowed the virus to leak back into the community. The virus has spread rapidly among vulnerable residents in aged-care centres, where government disaster relief teams have been deployed to replace infected staff.
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