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SYDNEY, July 14 — Australian states today tightened restrictions on movement as authorities struggle to contain a fresh outbreak of Covid-19 in the country's southeast that is starting to spill into other areas. With growing fears of a second coronavirus wave nationally, two states extended...

Victoria Police and ADF personnel work at a vehicle checkpoint along the Princes Freeway outside of Melbourne, Australia July 13, 2020. — AAP Image via Reuters

The changes come as scores of new cases were uncovered in Victoria, the country's Covid-19 hotspot, despite a return to lockdown last week for nearly 5 million people in state capital Melbourne. Australia avoided the high Covid-19 casualty numbers of other nations with swift and strict measures, but a spike in community-transmitted cases in Victoria and a rise in new cases in New South Wales has worried other states.

 

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