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Australia locks down high-rises as virus cases spike

Police speaking to residents outside one of nine public housing estates that have been locked down in Melbourne today, with more than 3,000 residents in 1,345 units required to stay home due to an outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus. – AFP pic, July 4, 2020.

THOUSANDS of residents in several high-rise apartments in Melbourne went into lockdown for at least five days today, as officials struggle to control a virus outbreak in Australia’s second biggest city. Hundreds of police were deployed to enforce the lockdown of nine public housing towers, as the country recorded its biggest daily increase of coronavirus cases in months.

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