Australia to lock down 300,000 in Melbourne suburbs after COVID-19 spike

Medical staff perform COVID-19 tests on members of the public in Melbourne, Australia, June 2020. MELBOURNE: Authorities will lock down around 300,000 people in suburbs north of Melbourne for a month from late on Wednesday to contain the risk of infection after two weeks of double-digit rises in new coronavirus cases in Australia's second most populous state.

The restrictions will be accompanied by a testing blitz that authorities hope will extend to half the population of the area affected, and for which borders will be patrolled, authorities said. The measures come as curbs ease across the rest of the state of Victoria, with restaurants, gyms and cinemas reopening in recent weeks.Victoria recorded 73 fresh cases on Tuesday from 20,682 tests, following an increase of 75 cases on Monday.

"Ultimately if I didn't shut down those postcodes I'd be shutting down all postcodes. We want to avoid that." Some other Australian states and territories are preparing to open borders, but applying limits and quarantine measures to citizens of Victoria as the school holiday season gets under way.South Australia, the country's fifth most populous state, has had just three new cases in the past month. But citing the spike in coronavirus infections, on Tuesday it cancelled its scheduled reopening to other parts of the nation.

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